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Team foundation server power tools is a set of tools that allow you to manipulate the TFS server from the command line, it also allows you access to many features that cannot be accessed from the gui.

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Team Foundation Server Power Tools for Visual Studio 2019

We use Team Foundation Version Control(TFVC) on on-prem TFS server. For quite a while it was possible to use TFS Power Tools (tfpt tool) from Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt. Lately we moved to VS 2019. Problem is that we can't find any…
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Team Members not showing in VS2013

I am trying to switch to Visual Studio 2013 from 2010. One feature I use in VS2010 is the Team Members list from the Team Explorer pane. That feature is not included in Visual Studio, but is included in Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools, which…
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Source control could not start the manual merge tool, why?

I used to execute tf merge $/Alpha/Dev $/Alpha/Main /recursive from Command Prompt to merge changes from Dev branch to Main branch. On conflicts it shows up Resolve Conflicts window and we could resolve conflicts manually by choosing option Merge…
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TFS 2012 Unshelve to different branch -> An item with the same key has already been added

I need help resolving the following issue: I am attempting to unshelve code from the source branch onto a target branch. I am using the following: VS2012 RC TFS 2012 VS2012 x64 Cross Tools Command Prompt When I use the command prompt to perform…
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Get Latest Version of Folder from TFS, using Powershell

I am trying to "Get Latest Version" of a particular folder from TFS, using Powershell. I have installed the TFS Snappin, and have been using TFS Power Tools cmdlets in PowerShell (such as Get-TfsChildItem and Select-TfsItem etc) [How do I set up TFS…
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How to delete a work item in TFS 2012?

This has been asked before but I'm struggling to find a way to delete a work item in Team Foundation Server. This looks promising: http://devmatter.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/deleting-work-items-in-tfs-ui.html. But no luck with it so far. First tried…
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TFS Build: `Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerShell' is not installed on this computer

When I'm logged in to tfs build server using local account and execute following powershell command: Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerShell it loads the tfs cmdlets correctly. However, when I trigger a build on tfs server that invokes the…
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Forbidden Patterns Check-In Policy in TFS 2010

I've been trying to use the Forbidden Patterns part of the TFS 2010 Power Tools and I'm just not understanding something - I simply cannot get anything to change as I try to use this! I'm using the version that was released recently (I believe April…
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Suppress powershell output messages

I have a TFS 2013 Update 2 buildserver. When I build a project, I checkout some files, alter some things and check it in again. This works great. The only problem is when someone has checkout one of those files, the buildserver will see that as an…
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Configure TFS server location in TFS powertools

I'm trying to unshelve a shelveset to another branch using the tfpt utility included in TFS Powertools. However, since I installed the TFS power tools we have moved the TFS server to another server (with a different URL). The problem is that when I…
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Creating a new WorkItem in TFS using TFPT command line tool with line breaks in Description field

How do I add a line break in the description field of a new WorkItem using the TFS 2010 Power Tools command line utility TFPT? I've tried this: Z:\>tfpt workitem /new "Project Ipsum\Issue" /collection:http://myserver:8080/tfs/test…
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Undo unchanged pending changes with Tfs power tools not working

Using Tfs 2015, when running the following command in my dev folder: tfpt uu \ noget \recursive it tells me: There are no redundant pending changes, although in my workspaces there are 15 files in pending changes without changes at all. Does…
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Windows PowerShell Snap-In for IIS fails on 32-bit?

I'm trying to write a PowerShell script that will automate my IIS website deployments. I'm trying to run the scripts on my Windows Server 2008 R2 machine, under 32-bit in: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe Whenever I run a…
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Copy files from tfs versioncontrol to directory with PowerShell

Does somebody know if it is possible to Copy files from TFS (2013 Update 2) source control to a specific folder on your computer? Let's say I have the server path $/BuildTemplate2013/BuildProcessSource and I want all the files of that directory to…
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Annotate changesets from source control in Visual Studio 2010

I use Visual Studio 2010 in combination with the Team Foundation Server 2010 and the Power Tools. In my code files (eg. \*.cs) I can right click in the editor and select Source Control"->"Annotate to get an additional column where I can see, who…
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