TFS Integration Tools – Issue: TFS WIT bypass-rule submission is enabled

When you run the TFS Integration Platform for the first time with TFS WIT bypass-rule submission enabled you will likely get the following error: Figure: A Runtime Error Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Migration.Tfs2010WitAdapter.PermissionException: TFS WIT bypass-rule submission is enabled. However, the migration service account ‘TFSService’ is not in the Service Accounts Group on server ‘http://tfsserver:8080/tfs/msf_migrate’.    at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Migration.Tfs2010WitAdapter.VersionSpecificUtils.CheckBypassRulePermission(TfsTeamProjectCollection tfs) […]

TFS 2012 Issue: Some features of Team Web Access are not visible to you

The first time you log into TFS 2012 you may see the message “Some features of Team Web Access are not visible to you” and once you check out the details you see that “In order to use all the features of Team Web Access, you must have the correct license and configuration. For more […]

Windows 8 Issue: Local network is detected as public

When you are running hyper-v you get the option to create private virtual switches to compartmentalise your network coms. if however you are using Windows 8 it may define those networks as “Public Networks” and tighten up your security so much that you cant communicate with other computers. Figure: Other networks detected as Public when […]

Office 2013 Issue: Installing Office 2013 breaks Visual Studio 2012

After installing Office 2013 on a machine with Visual Studio 2012 you get a “The procedure entry point _Atomic_fetch_sub_4 could not be located in the dynamic link library c:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0Common7IDEdevenv.exe” error when trying to load Visual Studio 2012. Figure: _Atomic_fetch_sub_4 exception Some of my colleagues ran into this. Applies To Visual […]

TFS Integration Tools–Issue: AnalysisProvider not found

When you are trying to load your custom Adapter you receive a message stating that it does not exist. Figure: AnalysisProvider 06a2457f-ebba-4979-bc5f-0f5006b8b4e6 not found Applies To TFS Integration Tools 2.2, March 2012 Finding If you check the logs you will see the same message as the popup: Application Error: 0 : [7/12/2012 2:41:32 PM] Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Migration.Toolkit.InitializationException: […]