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TFS SP1 installation retrospect

Nicolas Mueggler — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:41:09 +0000

After helping a few customers to install TFS SP1, I’d like to note some problems often occurring.

The SP installation package has some problems in dual server configurations and throws an error while installing. To avoid this problems, I always run the command line TFSQuiesce to shutdown all activities before installing.
When the original installation of TFS is run under a specific user (not a general “TFSSETUP” serivce account) and you try to install the SP with another user, you’ll probably get an Exception in the event log called something like this “Could not find stored procedure ‘dbo.GetAccountDisplayMode’” as described on the MSDN forums.
This happens because the owner of the databases is someone else and the user which installed the SP maybe hasn’t enough rights and therefore the setup wasn’t able to change the DB schema.
Uninstall the SP and try to run it again under the correct user.
Microsoft has published a hotfix for the issue where check-in event e-mail alert notifications don’t work well after TFS 2008 is configured to point use Work Item hyperlinks to Team System Web Access. Basically you create a subscription to the check-in events and the e-mail you get says this:

Team Foundation Server 2008 installation – Errors Part 2

Nicolas Mueggler — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:14:06 +0000

This is my second post about errors which can occur while installing Team Foundation Server.

If you find errors like this in your event log:

Source: MSSQLSERVER

Event ID: 18456

Description: Login failed for user ‘NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM’. [CLIENT: ]

Source: Report Server Windows

Event ID: 107

Description: Report Server Windows Service (MSSQLSERVER) cannot connect to the report server database.

and/or for example the TFSSchedulerService does not start after reboot, your SQL services might start to slow. This happens mostly if you install TFS in Single-Server mode.
Other services trying to connect to databases in the SQL Server but this is not completely up and running. To avoid this problem you need to delay loading this specific services.

Go to the registry editor and add a Multi-String Value to the corresponding service entry:

Key: \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ReportServer
Right click “New Multi-String Value”
Name: DependOnService
Value: MSSQLSERVER

Do this for all services like ReportServer and TFSSchedulerService. There is also a Knowledge-Base article here.

Team Foundation Server 2008 installation – Errors Part 1

Nicolas Mueggler — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:53:16 +0000

This is the first post about errors which can occur when installation TFS 2008.

Event log entry information:

Source: DCOM

Event ID: 10016

User: domain\tfsservice

Description: The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with
CLSID {61738644-F196-11D0-9953-00C04FD919C1}
to the user domain\tfsservice SID (…). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.

Reason:
This happens after installing SharePoint Services 3.0. The CLSID is used by the service “IIS WAMREG admin Service” and the tfsservice Account needs to have the local activation right on this service.

Solution:

Open “Administrative Tools” > “Component Services”

Expand nodes “Computers” > “My Computer” > “DCOM Config”

Locate entry “IIS WAMREG admin Service”

Right click > Properties

Tab “Security” > “Launch and Activation Permissions” > “Edit…” Button

Add tfsservice Account if not already present and grant permissions “Local Launch” and “Local Activation”

Source:	MSSQLSERVER
Event ID:	18456
Description:	Login failed for user ‘NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM’. [CLIENT: ]

Source:	Report Server Windows
Event ID:	107
Description:	Report Server Windows Service (MSSQLSERVER) cannot connect to the report server database.

Source:	DCOM
Event ID:	10016
User:	domain\tfsservice
Description:	The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission for the COM Server application with CLSID {61738644-F196-11D0-9953-00C04FD919C1} to the user domain\tfsservice SID (…). This security permission can be modified using the Component Services administrative tool.