Questions tagged [tfs-power-tools]

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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Get specific Version (@Label) for an old version tree

I'm having some problem to get a specific Label version for an old tree path (moved, renamed, etc..) in TFS2008. The problem I have is the following: I renamed and moved some portion of tree version files and folder and now I'm not able to get a…
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TF26049 error on importing work item type description

Currently Im trying to edit a work item type description in TFS 2013 using Visual Studio Process Editor. I've only exported WIT from server and even though I havent made any changes, when I try to import the WIT, following error message pops…
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tfpt unable to determine the workspace

I am trying to unshelve a shelveset from one Workspace to another. Both on visual studio online. Running such a command tfpt unshelve /migrate /source:"randomname.visualstudio.com\DefaultCollection\Project\Branch1"…
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Visual Studio 2015 has old version of TFPT which is unable to resolve workspaces

If I open the Developer Command Prompt for VS2015 and run the command cd /d [local path to branch mapping] tf workfold It shows the TFS mapping in my workspace correctly. But when I try using TFPT it keeps saying "Unable to determine the…
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Team foundation power tool is not getting recognize by Jenkins even it's installed to it

I have installed Team foundation power tool to Jenkins server. I have TFS 2015 installed with Full VS 2015. I want to run powershell script which pull project from TFS. I am able to run it from Jenkins server. When i try to pass that script from…
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How do I format HTML Fields for TFS / VSTS workitem queries

I am trying to use the Team Foundation Server Power Tools (tfpt) to create workitems programmatically. I need to create many test cases this way. The power tools are largely undocumented unfortunately but I have traced it down to one last remaining…
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insert command into start cmd

I am trying to insert the content of a text file into a cmd console, by using: start cmd.exe < c:\text.txt I also tried: start cmd.exe | c:\text.txt However, the both open the cmd shell but nothing gets passed. My point being in the end that I…
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how to call a bat script in jenkins

Hi I am tring to call a script in jenkins, but that script only works in the tfpt.exe command line. It is the TFS command line. I have created the scripts with the commands already, only these do not work with cmd.exe which is the usual Windows…
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TFS Shell Integration - TF Power Tools requires Visual Studio 2010

I just started using Team Foundation 2010, but I'm connecting to the server with Visual Studio 2008 SP1. It's working alright, except I can't install Power Tools to include shell integration because for some reason it requires Visual Studio 2010.…
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How to update test case in TFS using power tools?

Is there any way we can update test steps in a test case in TFS using power tools (command line) ? (Looking for solution other than MTM, Grid & 3rd party tools).
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TFS Power Tools and Team Explorer 2015

We have users that do not have Visual Studio installed on their computers, we need these users to be able to check files into Team Foundation Server Source Control 2015. I have read a lot about TFS Team Explorer and Power Tools but I don't know…
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How to edit a query on TFS (website) with Powershell?

I'm trying to automate some processes with Powershell. One of which, whenever we do branching, we have to manually udpate the "Current Release" query on our TFS site that searches User stories, so it has the right Release version in the search…
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TFS PowerTools Proxy Authentication Required HTTP code 407

Am behind a corporate proxy server and when attempting to use TFS Power Tools 2015 to view history or indeed any operation from the explorer extension I get a "HTTP code 407: Proxy Authorization Required" when connecting to Visual Studio Team…
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PowerShell TFS list all files which have been added within a certain timeframe

I use Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Power Tools. I know that to list all files that have been deleted in timeframe we can do something like this: Get-TfsItemHistory "$/MyProject" -Version "D29/01/2010~D03/12/2019" -Recurse -IncludeItems…
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Custom field in TFS 2010 does not appear in Team Web Access

I used the TFS 2010 Power Tools to create a custom field for a Task. The custom field shows nicely inside Visual Studio 2010 on my machine and a coworkers machine. However, when I go to Team Web Access in my browser, the new field does not appear in…
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