Multiple TFS users mapping their workspaces to same folder on shared drive

by XDK 18. December 2013 10:02

Explanation:

Multiple users mapping their workspaces to same folder on shared drive lead to conflicts in performing checkin, Checkout and "get latest" operations.

Workaround:

You can try users mapping their workspaces to different folder on shared drive.

For example

user 1 -- <Shared Drive>\User 1 Workspaces\

user 2 -- <Shared Drive>\User 2 Workspaces\

user 3 -- <Shared Drive>\User 3 Workspaces\

user 4 -- <Shared Drive>\User 4 Workspaces\

Note: Mapping the workspace to a shared drive lead to bad performance.

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Visual Studio 2010 | Visual Studio 2012 | Visual Studio 2013

Cannot add new build templates or create team projects on TFS because of error ‘The File Exists’

by XDK 16. December 2013 08:14

Exception:

Explanation:

The error may occur when the following cache folder size increases.

C:\Users\<tfsservice account / Build account>\AppData\Local\Temp

Solution:

Clearing the content of the following cache folder location resolved issue with build and team project creation. 

C:\Users\<tfsservice account / Build account>\AppData\Local\Temp

Tags:

Azure DevOps on-premises | TFS 2010 | TFS 2012 | TFS 2013

TFS Versions

by XDK 16. December 2013 07:51
TFS Versions    
2005 RTM 8.0.50727.147
  SP1 8.0.50727.762
     
2008 RTM 9.0.21022.8
  SP1 9.0.30729.1
     
2010 RTM 10.0.30319.1
  SP1 10.0.40219.1
  CU2 10.0.40219.371
     
2012 RTM 11.0.50727.1
  Update 1 11.0.51106.1
  Update 2 11.0.60315.1
  Update 3 11.0.60610.1
  Update 4  
     
2013 RTM 12.0.21005.1

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Azure DevOps on-premises | TFS 2010 | TFS 2012 | TFS 2013

How to Restart Team Foundation Server App Tier

by XDK 10. December 2013 10:16

Solution:

Open command prompt as Administrator. Execute the follwoing commands

  1. %windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd recycle apppool /apppool.name:"Microsoft Team Foundation Server Application Pool" 
  2. net stop tfsjobagent 
  3. net start tfsjobagent

Tags:

Azure DevOps on-premises

Exception Message: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Management.Automation, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. (type FileNotFoundException)

by XDK 10. December 2013 09:12

Explanation:

Build fails with missing file: System.Management.Automation.dll, The InvokePowerShellCommand activity in Community TFS Build Extensions has a dependency on System.Management.Automation.DLL

Solution:

Install Windows Management Framework 3.0 on the build server.

Tags:

TFS 2010 | TFS 2012 | TFS 2013

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