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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.

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TFS 2008 Custom Work Item State & Triage

I want to add a new work item State & Triage to all/bug work items. I searched Google but can't find anything useful if anyone knows how to do it please let me know. I know it has something to do with the process template but I can't find the area…
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Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2017 Failing to create backup

So we've had backups running for a few years now, and in the last few days it started backing up extra times. I went to reconfigure the backups to verify the settings and got an error saying it can't backup the dummy database. [Info …
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Team Foundation Version Control Commands

Does anyone know if the following commands are detailed or listed in any tables or config files? Table: tbl_Version Field: Command List item Edit = 2 Type = 4 Add folder = 5 Add file = 7 Rename = 8 Rename,edit = 10 Delete = 16 Delete,rename =…
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Impossible to deploy a website using Web IIS Deploy Task with a non-admin account

I want to deploy a website using the TFS Release Manager and the Web IIS deployt Task. It works perfectly when the account used is a local admin account. But with another non-admin account, I encountered this error…
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Available build tasks in TFS 2017

In contrast to the available build tasks in my personal VSTS instance: I have another (seems like older) set of tasks available on a my client's TFS instance (e.g. a ".Net Core (Preview)" task): What does the TFS admin have to do in order to…
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Need guidance regarding upgrade to server 2016

This is a very small development system and there is not a dedicated IT resource. It is a single hosting server running 2012 R2 with all its hosted VM servers also running 2012 R2. There are a few Windows VM workstations as well. There is…
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Team Foundation Server: How does it affects the Active Directory?

I'm a developer and got the order to install a Team Foundation Server (2017) on a Windows 2012 Server (no RC) in our Network. All Clients of the network authenticates over a Active Directory, so it would make sense to stick to the same mechanism…
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Problems using apache 2.2 as a Reverse Proxy for Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015

I'm using an Apache 2.2 in order to access a Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 configured to use NTML. My configuration for this purpose is the following: ProxyPreserveHost On ProxyPass /tfs/ http://tfs2015.mdlp.es:8080/tfs/ ProxyPassReverse…
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Can Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) be configured to use sshPublicKey ldap attributes

We have a very mixed environment as many enterprises should, our users are in Microsoft AD, our servers are a mix of windows and linux. As such, we use the sshPublicKey ldap attribute to store ssh keys for linux authentication and gitlab. Does TFS…
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Some users not seeing all TFS options in Visual Studio

I have two users who only see the following options in the Team Explorer tab in Visual Studio: Changes, Branches, Sync and Settings Another user, correctly sees all of them: Changes, Branches, Pull Requests, Sync, Work Items, Builds, Reports,…
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TFS 2015: TFS hosting path when using "server"

In TFS 2015 the "publish" task in a build definition may either push to the TFS server or to a fileshare/UNC path. Unfortunately, deleted builds aren't automatically pruned if you're using a fileshare. However, I'm unable to determine where TFS…
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TFS DB and Recovery Model. Is Simple Safe

On my TFS database server all the databases are set to Full Recovery Model. We don't do any log shipping and just do full db backups each night so would there be any impact to TFS is we changed our recovery model to Simple? (the log files are…
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Network Drive Full Trust With Visual Studio 2010/2014

I'm managing 10 developer computers and I want to assign to each computer a Network Drive (Let's say X: drive) so the developer can map the TFS workspace to that drive. When the user tries to open any visual studio solution form drive X: (which's a…
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How do you install a new build controller in TFS?

I am not looking for detailed instructions, I just want the quick and dirty overview. We have an existing TFS infrastructure, I am looking to install a new build controller for 1 team project. Do I need to create a new VM and install TFS…
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Write permissions for Network service in network folder

I'm trying to setup Team Foundation Server (TFS) authomatic backups, and to do that I need to set up a network folder for database backups. When trying to set folder path I receive a message from TFS saying SQl Server service has not permissions for…
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