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Understanding Build and Release Pipelines - Visual Studio Team Services/Team Foundation Server.
This article is provided in a FAQ format, based on our experience with customers to explain the...
Date: 11/14/2017
TFS 2018 RC2 is now available for download!
TFS 2018 RC2 is now available for download. For download links and more information, check out the...
Date: 09/25/2017
Unconfigure Team Foundation Server
Applies to: TFS 2013 and above Sometimes, we'd like to refresh the TFS Application Tier setup to...
Date: 09/25/2017
Test TFS Upgrades: Pre-Production and Production Upgrade to Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2017.2
We received a lot of queries asking to clarify Pre-Production and Production upgrade to TFS 2017...
Date: 09/25/2017
Disabling Get Sources step in vNext build
Applies to/Tested on: TFS 2017/VSTS One of my customer wanted to disable the Get Sources operation...
Date: 09/25/2017
TFS 2018 RC1 is now available for download!
TFS 2018 RC1 is now available for download. For download links and more information, check out the...
Date: 08/31/2017
Error while detaching the Collection database : TF246017: Team Foundation Server could not connect to the database.
Environment: TFS 2017 Last weekend while I was with a customer I observed the below error message,...
Date: 08/30/2017
Connecting to TFS 2017 using VS 2008/MSSCCI Provider for 2013.
As many organizations are upgrading to TFS 2017, there is a growing concern for version controlling...
Date: 07/25/2017
TFS 2017 Update 1, Nuget Restore task always fails trying to find packages even though they exist on the feed.
We have come across a couple of cases where the Nuget Restore task in TFS 2017 Update 1 would fail...
Date: 04/18/2017
Use TFS API to add or update ACEs in the ACL for the provided token
I worked on an interesting issue recently, Issue: TFS Service account lost admin rights on a...
Date: 04/14/2017
Testing - Test Case automation: Executing automated Test Cases in a remote environment.
The objective of this article is to help you with the steps to Automate a Test Case Work Item. To...
Date: 03/10/2017
Setting up Test Controller - Agent to do Automation Testing
The objective of this article is to provide step by step guidance on how to setup lab environment to...
Date: 03/10/2017
AD Group refresh times out in Release Management 2013/2015 WPF setups: “Unable to refresh AD groups at this time. This can happen if AD is temporarily unavailable. Please try again. If the problem persists contact your application administrator.”
We’ve come across some SQL timeout issues with RM 2013/2015 when it has to process a large amount of...
Date: 03/03/2017
Visual Studio (VS) 2015.3 does not detect any files added under the folder named 'Release' on Team Projects with Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) on VSTS
We came across an interesting case where the user was having trouble adding new Visual Studio...
Date: 02/23/2017
TF401256: You do not have Write permissions for query Shared Queries.
Recently, we worked with a customer on an issue, where a Contributor was not able to save to Shared...
Date: 02/15/2017
The test agent being used does not support the feature to execute tests by selecting Test Suite(s)
Scenario: You are trying to execute tests using the “Run Functional Tests” task, in a vNext build....
Date: 01/20/2017
In-place upgrade to TFS 2017 RTW (Release To Web) with Reporting and SharePoint
We wanted to create a stand-alone, in-place upgrade documentation for TFS 2017 per many customer...
Date: 12/19/2016
Error: SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate
One of the most common issue with TFS/GIT users come across is the issue caused by self-signed...
Date: 12/19/2016
TFS 2017 NuGet publisher task fails with 401 - Unauthorized exception
With TFS 2017, we have added the new Package Management feature, which lets you host your NuGet...
Date: 12/06/2016
Upgrade to Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2017.
This article aims to expand on the Upgrade overview and give a step by step walk-through of the...
Date: 11/30/2016
XAML build service fails with: “The type initializer for LibGit2Sharp.Core.NativeMethods' threw an exception”
I recently worked on a case where the TFS XAML build service was failing with the below exception:...
Date: 11/16/2016
Test execution failing when a Data-Driven test methods is referring parameter values from a test case WorkItem
Recently we are getting cases, where users get the below error when a data-driven test method is...
Date: 11/07/2016
Building a website with TFS build.
Normally, it is a best practice to not include the bin folder of your solution to source control, in...
Date: 09/21/2016
Running Automated Test on agent machine using vNext Build
We have been getting lot of customer requests for asking the steps to execute automated test on...
Date: 08/05/2016
vNext Build: Using a variable for Server Path for repository is not supported.
Until TFS 2015 update 1, it was possible to define and use a variable, for Server Path, to specify...
Date: 08/01/2016
Code Review default queries not fetching data after upgrading to TFS 2015
We recently noticed that code review default queries are not fetching and displaying the data in...
Date: 07/28/2016
How to add iterations in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)?
Lately, we've had some customers with the question, "Where is the + sign to add Iterations in VSTS?"...
Date: 07/20/2016
Readiness check fails on Application Tier with the error, “Cannot create a binding on port ‘XXX’ because the specified certificate could not be found. Select a different certificate and then re-run the readiness checks”
TFS 2015 Update 2 gives the option of editing the Site bindings on IIS as part of the configuration...
Date: 06/07/2016
How to add a Web performance test plug-in to authenticate through different proxy in Visual Studio 2015?
There could be instances you may want your test to get authenticate using a different proxy with...
Date: 05/31/2016
Release hub showing “Release Management is in trial and available to all basic users.”
Recently, we have seen clients concerned that the licensed TFS version displays the message “Release...
Date: 05/27/2016
Accessing/Updating Azure Web App Settings from VSTS using Azure PowerShell.
There are a lot of features on VSTS and Azure that help seamless integration/working between them,...
Date: 05/20/2016
Deploying and Schedule Azure WebJobs from VSTS to Azure Web App (With bonus CRON Scheduling)
WebAPI apps with WebJobs schedules are currently the intuitive way to work with Web Apps. In this...
Date: 05/18/2016
TFS 2015.2 – Team project creation fails with TF51541: The Node ID is not recognized
TFS Versions: TFS 2015.2/TFS 2015.2.1 Recently, we have seen a few users experiencing the below...
Date: 05/13/2016
TF51541: The Node ID is not recognized.
You may notice the following error in the Work Item warehouse Sync and subsequently your full...
Date: 05/13/2016
TFS 2015.2 Configuration – Verification check fails with IIS_IUSRS group requiring ‘log on a batch’ permission.
Recently we have seen a few incidents, where the configuration of TFS 2015.2 fails at readiness...
Date: 05/11/2016
Build association with work Items in vNext
When switching from XAML to vNext, I realized the newer build model doesn’t update Global List. Old...
Date: 05/09/2016
Release Management/Team Foundation Server compatibility list (RM - TFS Supportability Matrix)
With different versions of TFS and RM around, we constantly get questions as to which version of RM...
Date: 05/09/2016
TF218017 Error message while trying to create new Team Project.
I was recently working with a customer who was hitting the below error message while trying to...
Date: 04/05/2016
Build and Deploy Azure Web Apps using Team Foundation Server/Services vNext Builds.
At Microsoft, we are constantly trying to improve the cloud services and integration to make it more...
Date: 04/01/2016
vNext Build fails with error message ‘Cannot find solution’ because it does not exist.
Issue Recently we have seen some cases where a vNext build, when queued, would fail with a message...
Date: 12/18/2015
Text field in a work item changes to valid user drop down after upgrade to TFS 2015
This article will discuss about a case where we have seen a change in a work item field, after...
Date: 12/17/2015
Collecting code coverage data as part of automated test.
We were recently working on a case, which was related to collecting code coverage information for a...
Date: 12/11/2015
TFS 2015 RTM, Update 1 : “TF14098: Access Denied: User needs Label permission(s) for .”
We’ve recently come across an issue with TFS 2015 RTM, where the CreateLabel() method would through...
Date: 12/04/2015
Controlling build result with code coverage percentage (using build vNext)
<Edit, added script for VSO> I had written a blog about on this topic for XAML build...
Date: 11/06/2015
Controlling build result based on code coverage percentage (For XAML Builds).
We can control the success of a build in our own customized way. And one of them would be based on...
Date: 11/06/2015
Changing the TFS URL being used by a release definition from server name to DNS name in Release Management.
Scenario: I have two TFS connections added, for same TFS server, in Release Management. The first...
Date: 11/04/2015
Building ClickOnce apps using build vNext
We had earlier posted a blog that explains how to build ClickOnce applications using XAML build...
Date: 10/15/2015
Error “4 error(s) occurred while executing upd_WorkItemTrackingToDev14M63.sql script.” during upgrade of collection to TFS 2015
We have had a few users who hit the following error when upgrading from their source version to TFS...
Date: 10/15/2015
Tokenization with Release Management
This article provides a demo of processing tokens as part of the build and release, using Release...
Date: 10/15/2015
TF53001: The database operation was canceled by an administrator
During certain instances, if you do a commit/check in on a large chunk of source code, Undo a...
Date: 10/08/2015