Team Foundation Server Power Tools December 2011

Hello,

I would like to customize my work item say, Bug for capturing more information for reporting purpose. I am successfull in customizing the bug work item using TFS Power Tool for a particular Project / Application available under one project collection.

Now, i want the same customized fields to be available to the work item (Bug) across my TFS, regardless of under which the project collection it is created. How can i do it. Any help is highly appreciated.

Regards,

Arun Nambiar

I'm trying to install the December 2011 version, but setup keeps asking for the MSI of the August 2011 version which I don't have any more.
Where can I get it so I can uninstall it?
Any other ideas?

When I attempt to run the tcmpt.exe command, my query always times out:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\Test Attachment Cleaner>tcmpt.exe attachmentcle
anup /collection:http://server:8080/tfs/defaultcollection /teamproject:"Project" /settingsfile:"SampleSettings\Scenario1-SizeGreaterThan100MB.xml" /mode:
"preview"
Logging output to defaultcollection_Project_2012-08-08.025115.log
..........Team Foundation services are not available from server Server\Def
aultCollection.
Technical information (for administrator):
  The operation has timed out

I'm running this against TFS 2010.

Was there an answer on this thread?  We have just migrated to a 2010 server and now I’m getting the same message.  Works fine in VS2010 but I cannot connect with the 2010 TFS MSSCCI Provider.

What is the solution?  Downgrade back to the 2008 FTS Server?

i've got file in tfs that has 2 changesets in history: 
- my changeset
- branch changeset (first changeset in the branch created by 'branch' operation)
when i call tfpt annotate on that file, it says all lines changed in latest changeset ('my changeset') which is incorrect. 
it looks like this tool do not compare 'branch' changesets, i think it's a bug

I have installed both VS2010 and Lync 2013
Whenever I start VS2010 and the team members node is populated the Lync window pops up. At the same time all/most of the contacts in Lync are added as contacts or links in contacts in Outlook. The results is 10s of links and on my phine (iPhone) the same contact available 10s of times with no way of easy deleting them. :(
Any thought what could be going on here and maybe how to solve it?

Anyone know how to cleanup old servers from TFSShellExt's awareness?  app log is littered with HTTP 404 errors and I can't figure out how to prevent them from being called.  There is a thread here that details it pretty well, and has gone unresolved for 2 years.  hope the URL works ... http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfspowertools/thread/71e02439-81b2-46a1-8dfb-405d0078f953

There's now a solution on there if you re-check the link. Takes a bit of fiddling but, it works. :)

Is there anyway to make tfpt treeclean and tfpt scorch handle symlinks? At the moment it fails when it runs across a directory that is a reparse point.

I'm I can check files out usign the Explorer extension but when I try to check it back in again (or undo checkout) I'm gettign an error message that Microsoft.Team.Foundation.VersionControl.ControlAdapter 10.0.0.0 or one of its dependancies can't be found.

The Assmembly doesn't appear to be on my machine at all.

Any ideas where it can be installed from?

Does any documentation exist for "Alert Explorer" that gives at least a brief explanation of the items listed under "Fields"?

I realize that some of them are obvious. I've also found that some provide a drop down box of predefined selections in the "Value" cell. For example, the selecting "StatusCode" as the field gives a drop down box of the following items:

All,Failed,InProgress,None,NotStarted,PartiallySucceeded, Stopped, Succeeded

However, not all fields are obvious, especially fields that do not provide drop down boxes. For example the field "Title". Does this mean the title of the build definition? the alert definition? etc.

Is there perhaps a more general location in visual studio documentation where these fields are explained? These are all the fields I desire to have described (even though some may be obvious):

AgentPath

BuildNumber

CompilationStatus

ConfigurationFolderUri

DefinitionPath

DropLocation

FinishTime

KeepForever

LastChangeBy

LastChangedOn

LogLocation

Quality

RequestedBy

RequestedFor

SourceGetVersion

StartTime

Status

StatusCode

Subscriber

TeamProject

TestStatus

Title

Also, especially with fields that do not provide a drop down box, it would be useful to know the syntax requirements. For example, are values case insensitive? Is a domain prefix required when entering a user with the "RequestedBy" field? Having explicit details on the input each of field would be very nice.

If we only want to restore a Team Project Collection Database (and we don't care about the reports, the tfs configuration db, etc...), can we do it with the restore feature of SQL Server Management Studio ?

I have indeed an issue with the restore wizard of the power tools: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfspowertools/thread/debe5172-c268-45a6-a8b0-e8469ad38e31

If that is doable/valid, can we also simply restore all the other databases using that interface or will we be missing data/state ?

V.

For information purpose, I finally did restore only one collection DB with the SQL Management Restore feature and everything works fine since...

I had no choice as I was unable to use the Power Tools Restore Wizard to do it. I did post on that problem here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfspowertools/thread/debe5172-c268-45a6-a8b0-e8469ad38e31