Team Foundation Server - Setup, Administration and Operations Blog

Proxy Upgrades: How to Verify Skipped Proxy Endpoints

TFS 2013 offers support for Proxy settings persistence during in-place upgrades. This means we will...

Author: AndreaMS Date: 06/27/2013

Removing an Admin Console User with DBO Permissions

In TFS 2012, you may notice you're unable to remove an Admin Console User who is the SQL database...

Author: AndreaMS Date: 05/01/2013

TF255146: Team Foundation Server requires SQL Server 2008 R2 (10.50.1600) or greater.

While trying to configure a 2012 version of Team Foundation Server Express or Basic, you may hit the...

Author: AndreaMS Date: 04/29/2013

TF400371, TF14045 | Configuring Proxy in an Untrusted Domain

If you are running TFS 2012 RTM, Update 1, or Update 2 and are trying to configure a proxy machine...

Author: AndreaMS Date: 04/15/2013

TF255455: SQL Server Reporting Services is configured to require a secure connection. However, no HTTPS URL is configured with a valid certificate.

If you are seeing this error, it means that your Reporting Services instance was set up to require a...

Author: AndreaMS Date: 03/19/2013

Upgrade Failure: "The installation and configuration of Team Foundation Server succeeded, however upgrading the data was unsuccessful"

If you received this message on the completion page of the TFS upgrade wizard, it means that the...

Author: AndreaMS Date: 03/05/2013

Upgrading AlwaysOn and Mirrored Environments

Starting with Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 2, TFS users will be able to upgrade deployments...

Author: AndreaMS Date: 03/05/2013

Troubleshooting Installation of Team Foundation Server

Below is a list of common problems that can occur while installing Team Foundation Server, as well...

Author: AndreaMS Date: 03/05/2013

TF401066: Upgrading TFS on a machine with underscores in its name

If you received this warning message when upgrading your instance of Team Foundation Server, it...

Author: AndreaMS Date: 03/04/2013

Unattended Installation of TFS 2012

Introduction What is Unattended Installation? Unattended install is a feature of Team Foundation...

Author: AndreaMS Date: 10/01/2012

Network Considerations for TFS Proxy Servers

If you are installing a TFS Proxy server on a machine that is configured toautomatically receive the...

Author: EdH - MSFT Date: 03/23/2012

List of TFS 2010 Patches

As of 6/18, there is a patch that fixes a critical upgrade bug and it can be downloaded here:...

Author: Aaron Block - MSFT Date: 04/09/2010

Server and Notification URL

Generally, the Server URL and the Notification URL should not be modified. Both these values are...

Author: Aaron Block - MSFT Date: 04/07/2010

How to connect Team Explorer 2008 Client to a TFS 2010 Server that requires client certificates

One question that has come up recently is how do you connect a 2008 Team Explorer client to a TFS...

Author: Aaron Block - MSFT Date: 12/21/2009

Scaling TFS 2010 Beta 2

Mario Rodriguez recently wrote a paper on the best practices for scaling out TFS 2010. This document...

Author: Aaron Block - MSFT Date: 11/05/2009

How to move Reporting Services Off-Box in TFS 2008

One question that has come up recently is “On TFS 2008, how do I move just my Reporting Services...

Author: Aaron Block - MSFT Date: 06/26/2009

TFS 2010 Beta 1 Error TF31001, The ServicePointManager does not support proxies with the https scheme.

If, in TFS 2010 Beta 1, you are encountering the error TF31001: Cannot connect to Team Foundation...

Author: Aaron Block - MSFT Date: 05/20/2009

Upgrading to Team Foundation Server 2008 while Changing Servers

One of the most common problems that users encounter is how do I upgrade TFS 2005 to TFS 2008 and...

Author: Aaron Block - MSFT Date: 04/20/2009

Setting up TFS with SSL/HTTPs

Another common problem that TFS admins often encounter is setting up TFS with SSL/HTTPs. You can...

Author: Aaron Block - MSFT Date: 03/18/2009

Move from one Environment to Another, Workgroup to Domain Move

About: In this type of move, you will not move any part of your TFS systems between machines, but...

Author: Aaron Block - MSFT Date: 02/20/2009

Move from a Single-Server to a Dual-Server

About: In this type of move, you will move your data-tier off of the same box as your...

Author: Aaron Block - MSFT Date: 02/20/2009

Move from One Hardware Configuration to Another

About: This type move, describes how to move your single-server system to new hardware....

Author: Aaron Block - MSFT Date: 02/20/2009

Index of Server Moves

One of the main admin scenarios that customers have problems with is moving Team Foundation Server...

Author: Aaron Block - MSFT Date: 02/20/2009

Server Change We Can Believe In

One of the main admin scenarios that customers have problems with is moving TFS between severs. In...

Author: Aaron Block - MSFT Date: 02/20/2009

Hyper-V and TFS

One of the topics that’s come up a few times recently while talking to TFS users has been Hyper-V....

Author: Aaron Block - MSFT Date: 02/03/2009

Problems upgrading Conchango's Scrum for Team System from 1.x to 2.x with TFS 2008

We have heard about two issues from customers that are upgrading from TFS2005 to TFS2008 that also...

Author: Bryan Krieger - MSFT Date: 05/13/2008

Updated Document: Moving Team Foundation Server from One Hardware Configuration to Another

The User Education team has made some important updates to the document "Moving Team Foundation...

Author: TFSAO Date: 04/28/2008

Upgrading Sharepoint Server from 2.0 to 3.0 after the TFS 2005 to TFS 2008 Upgrade

One of the most common questions we get from customer during a TFS upgrade from 2005 to 2008 is how...

Author: TFSAO Date: 04/03/2008

Welcome to the TFS Setup, Admin & Ops Blog!

Welcome to the official blog of the Microsoft Team Foundation Server Admin and Ops team! Through...

Author: TFSAO Date: 02/22/2008