Explanation:

A regular get operation will deleted each item in the target workspace folder and re-downloaded the folders and files from the server to target workspace folder.

Solution:

Use remap switch with tf get command

"tf get /remap"

Note: /remap switch does increase the load on server to process your request

Explanation

A lock cannot exist in a shelveset, When you try to lock an item and shelve it, your lock will be removed as part of the shelve operation.

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.

Work Around

Change the following key value to “False”.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\TeamFoundation\SourceControl\Behavior\@ResolveAsDefaultCheckinAction

Explanation:

HTML fields are only editable in Excel when the Work item is created. After the first revision has saved you can no longer edit it in Excel.