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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TFS PowerTools 2013 - Cross Branch Unshelve - An Item With the same key already has been added
Ok, I am pulling my hair out on this one.
I am using:
VS 2013.2
TFS 2013
TFS PowerTools 2013
I shelved pending changes on the main branch, I simply want to unshelve them on a dev branch that was created after creating the shelveset without…

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How do I format the TFS work item AssignedTo field with PowerShell
I'm using TFS 2012 Power Tools and PowerShell to display work items containing change sets which modified source files below a given directory within the last 120 days. With lots of good help from StackOverflow I find the work items and display them…

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Can TFS 2012 Power Tools be used with TFS 2010?
I have TFS 2010 installed on the TFS server, and VS 2012 installed on my workstation, and that's working great except we have some check-in policies that rely on TFPT, and I have not yet installed TFPT on my workstation. I'm wondering if I can just…

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How to get Checkin Notes with Get-TFSItemHistory TFS Powershell command
I am trying to use TFS PowerShell command line utility for getting changeset details after a certain date.
I need the Check-in notes fields specifically CodeReviewer. I am able to get other fields correctly. But CodeReviewer is always blank. I have…

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Get the rollback information of a changeset
as it's described in here;
I installed tfs power tools 2012. I used rollback feature by selecting the changeset: thus I'm expecting to rollback to that version and it's working great. When I look at the history of the file that was rollbacked at the…

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TFS missing work item type Change Request
I have just started at a new company and have been making some improvements to their existing Team Foundation Server 2010. But for some reason when I use the power tools to Select a work item type there is no Change Request work item. And you can't…

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Can I query Changesets via tfpt.exe, tf.exe, or via the TFS API (from powershell)?
I know how to query workitems, although I haven't been very successful finding info on the WIQL. There's one basic example that seems to get repeated everywhere.
I'd like to be able to query changesets. Can I do it with tf.exe, tfpt.exe, or.. ?

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How could alert TFS on specific query when state changed?
I use Alert Explorer using Team Foundation Server Power Tools. My senario is when a State of spacific workItem Changed an email send to users.but when i want to create my query on some fields that I added them to my workItemType befor , only…

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Merging a single change in TFS 2008
I'm looking for a way to quickly merge a single changeset from one branch to another in TFS 2008. To date, my company has backported changes to older versions of our product manually, so no merge history exists between the branches in TFS.
Due to…

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Using TFS Power Tool to send email to Any person who get assigned a new Work Item
I can use TFS Power Tools to send emails to a specific user every-time a new work item created but instead i want to send the person who is assigned the new work item!
any one has any idea how to do that ?

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Script TFS Powertools shell extension getter
Is there a simple way to script the TFS powertools "get latest version" feature ?
I am refering to this window:
I just want to get it via a script, rather than by right clicking on a folder. I am aware of tf get but I like the powertools window…

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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools (TFPT) scripted upgrade/install?
I need to provide an automated way to bring machines up to the current version (or later, future versions) of tfpt. Also, I need the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerShell cmdlets to be installed, whereas for some reason they're not installed by…

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Given code base hosted on TFS, which command can tell me which file has changed most?
I want to find out files under a given directory which have been updated most. Is there any command which can display this info? Or is there any way to get max version count for a given file, so I can write some script to get this info from all and…

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Replacement for "Team Foundation PowerTools" TFPT GETCS command using TF VC commands
I am using Azure DevOps Build/Release pipelines to duplicate PowerShell deployment scripts. Most of them use "Team Foundation PowerTools" TFPT GETCS command. In order to use the pipelines, I need to use TF VC commands.
Does anyone know of a…

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TFPT unshelve /migrate across workspaces
Thank you to Ben Cull for providing the unshelve/migrate instructions in his blog:
Problem:
Unable to unshelve migrate across workspaces
Setup:
Workspace 1, Branch a
Workspace 2, Branch b
Shelveset 999
Execution:
using VSDevCmd.bat
tfpt…

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