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Team Foundation Server is a complete Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) suite, offered by Microsoft. TFS combines activities such as Source Control Management, Work Item Tracking, Project Management, Build Management, and Reporting into a single product with strong integration points to the Visual Studio and Microsoft Office product lines.

Team Foundation Server is a complete Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) suite, offered by Microsoft. TFS combines activities such as Source Control Management, Work Item Tracking, Project Management, Build Management, and Reporting into a single product with strong integration points to the Visual Studio and Microsoft Office product lines.

Additionally, the rich API and extensibility points of TFS allows for custom applications and plug-ins to be created to customize TFS beyond the standard clients and server actions.

Product information:

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TFS Check In Issue: The underlying connection was closed: A connection that was expected to be kept alive was closed by the server

I've recently started seeing the below error when attempting to check in code to TFS: The underlying connection was closed: A connection that was expected to be kept alive was closed by the server. The TFS service is hosted by our vendor. When I…
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What should be excluded from a virus scan on a Microsoft based server (IIS, MSSQL, etc.)?

I want to keep antivirus software from affecting performance on a TFS installation -- what should be excluded from antivirus scanning? IIS? MSSQL? Am I opening myself up for possible attacks by excluding these? I've seen some recommendations that…
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Robocopy uses relative path for Source and Destination paths

I'm trying to use RoboCopy in my TFS Build Template to copy some files, but for some reason it inserts "C:\Windows\system32" in front of my Source and Destination paths, even though I am passing in absolute paths. I know that the robocopy.exe is…
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Building a New Active Directory and moving from Old Domain

I am in the midst of building a new Active Directory 2008 Domain. My organization is currently running on a AD2000 and the decision has been made to build a new AD instead of migrate our current AD to 2008 ADDS. We have an Exchange 2003…
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Multiple TFS "hosts" behind a simple iis loadballancer

I got a simple setup for a way to distribute loads for my websites using (at the moment) 3 IIS servers and Application Request Routing. I'm wondering, does TFS handle being installed on the 2 backends well or might it cause some issues when eg.…
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Too much memory consumed during TFS automated build

We're running TFS 2010 Standard Edition, and we've set up an automated build to run whenever someone checks in code. We run through all of the automated tests (built with MSTest) as part of the build. We've configured the build to run the tests as a…
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TFS - Occasional Permissions Error when Cleaning

I am running an onsite TFS 2017 Build Server. As part of my process, I delete all existing files in a target folder (using the Delete Files Utility). This works almost every time, however, some sort of permission gets messed up on a file and this…
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Why does TFS need an SQL Server Instance?

It's been over 3 years since I am using TFS 2012 for source code management, reporting and project management. However, until now, I've never installed from scratch any version of TFS. In order to use SSRS 2016, I need to install TFS 2015, and by…
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TFS and Active Directory - Group Membership not populating to TFS in a timely manner

I am using groups in Active Directory to manage what users can access projects in TFS. My problem is, that even though AD shows them in the group, and even through TFS when I look at who is a member of the group, it shows the user, access is not…
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Any way to speed up Team System Web Access' first startup?

Does anyone else experience really slow startup time the first time TSWA is accessed after an idle period? I'm considering running a task to get the page every minute or so just to keep things cached.. But this doesn't seem right. I know TSWA is an…
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Easy way to resurrect numerous AD clients powered off for 2 years?

I have a pair of active directory domains with a one-way trust where I am attempting to revive some servers (~12, so automated steps would be handy but I can manually do everything if necessary) that have been offline for 2+ years. The good…
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Is it possible to rename a TFS workspace?

Is it possible to reaname a TFS workspace? If it is, how is it done?
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Is it technically possible to upgrade TFS 2010 to TFS 2013 Express?

Is there a supported upgrade path from Team Foundation Server 2010 Professional to Team Foundation Server 2013 Express? Is this possible on technical level?
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TFS 2013 intermittent error: TF400732: the request has been canceled

Recently, we installed TFS 2013. Since installing it, we keep getting the error "TF400732: the request has been canceled." when opening TFS with the browser or performing some tasks from Visual Studio. If I look in the event log, the only thing I…
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When one DC crashes, TFS 2012 stops working

We have two Windows 2008 domain controllers. We installed the second DC only a few months ago. We also have a TFS 2012 server on the network. Today, when the older DC crashed, TFS stopped working completely. Local users received messages such as…
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