Nicolas is blogging » Update http://blog.mastertheteam.net Jand writes about team development and Microsoft.NET Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:19:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 TFS SP1 installation retrospect http://blog.mastertheteam.net/2008/10/tfs-sp1-installation-retrospect/ http://blog.mastertheteam.net/2008/10/tfs-sp1-installation-retrospect/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:41:09 +0000 Nicolas Mueggler http://blog.mastertheteam.net/?p=51 After helping a few customers to install TFS SP1, I’d like to note some problems often occurring.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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:

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    1. Before installing SP1 make sure you run the Hotfix Cleanup Utility for Visual Studio to cleanup your current installation
    2. If you have Express Edition and normal Visual Studio installed, you can’t update Express before upgrading normal Visual Studio
    3. When upgrading your TFS with an installation of Visual Studio make sure that you first install SP for Visual Studio and then the one for TFS. If you first install TFS SP1, then you can’t update Visual Studio anymore…
    4. Update all your tiers with SP1 (this includes Build Server, Load Controller, TFS and Client) to avoid unpredictable errors
    5. If you working with ASP.NET Ajax you should wait to upgrade, because there could be a bug in the SP. This was reported by Thomas Schissler in his blog post (German).
    6. If you make a new installation of TFS and want to include installing SP1, then look for the updated TFS Installation Guide to integrate SP1 in the installation (there is currently no TFS2008 ISO incl. SP1).
    7. Look for the Readme listing the known issues

    As good practice I advice my customers (Production environments) to wait for the next 2 weeks to make sure no big problems will be found.

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