Get more detailed error message information from the TFS admin tools in TFS 2008.

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The TFS administration tools will output error information should a command fail. There is an environmental setting that you can set before running the command that will cause our tools to output more detailed information. Simply set the following variable: 

 

Set TfsDetailedErrors=1

 

Now when you run tfsadminutil command you will get more details.