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Team foundation server how to find a particular user's check-in only
I found the way to see a specific user's check-in only.
In the Source Control Explorer click on the Find Changesets icon (1 in the screenshot)
In the popup, If you want to see the results for a ...
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Why am I required to install Oracle JRE while installing TFS?
You need to install Java because TFS Code Search uses ElasticSearch, which runs on Java.
Reference: from Code & Work Item Search for TFS 2017 – Troubleshooting:
For TFS 2017 on-premises, Code ...
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How to connect to TFS on Visual Studio for Mac Release Preview
TFS can use either TFVC (Team Foundation Version Control) or Git for the source control part. You don't have to use an external Git server, it has an internal one - with the data stored in the TFS SQL ...
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Error TF80080 when connecting Microsoft Project to VSTS
Installing the Team Foundation Server Standalone Office Integration 2015 (free) solved this problem for me.
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Add-Ins not loaded in Excel, when started via opening a file
The problem is likely a phantom EXCEL.EXE process. Close out all versions of Excel, then go to Task Manager. In the 'Processes' tab, look for an EXCEL.EXE process. If you find one, end it.
My problem ...
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TFS 2018 Accidental Deletion of WIKI pages
The wiki is stored in source control (either Git or TFVC), the appropriate revert (git)/rollback (tfvc) from the Source Control Explorer or the Git Branches view should bring back the deleted data.
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How can I connect to TFS without having to repeatedly type my credentials? Command line mac
If you set the TF_AUTO_SAVE_CREDENTIALS environment variable to any value, such as “0.” The login credentials will be cached. To set variables you need to set it in the terminal setup files, if you ...
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Automatically create hyperlinks in Outlook with varying parameters
I found an Outlook-only answer for you. Outlook supports a programming language called VBA (Visual Basic for Applications).
Use Alt+F11 to access the VBA Editor, then right click under Project1 -> ...
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Can't get rid of blue line separating my two tables in excel
You're using the Team ribbon bar, which is connected to a TFS or Azure Dev Ops instance. The data in the table is based on a query, so Excel is automatically formatting the table for you. If you want ...
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Can I change the address hyperlinks navigate to, programatically?
The simplest solution would be to map tfs.corp.olddomain.com to the IP address
of tfs.corp.newdomain.com.
If the IP address of tfs.corp.newdomain.com is 123.456.789.012, then add
the following line to ...
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Can I change the address hyperlinks navigate to, programatically?
No, but you can have the browser do it instead.
For major browsers (Firefox, Chrome) there are plenty of "URL rewriter" extensions, some only changing fixed prefixes, others supporting regex-...
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How to disable TfsComProviderSvr.exe?
I created a shortcut and added the below command in Target. I use this shortcut to kill the TfsComProviderSvr.exe whenever I see large number of instances running.
C:\Windows\System32\taskkill.exe /f ...
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TFS and privacy
When working with the TFVC version control protocol, Workspaces are just local storage for your code projects. when you retrieve a project from the server so you can work on it, it has to copy the ...
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Need to apply all patches for TFS 2018 Update 3.2?
This was raised in the 2020
July patches for Azure DevOps Server and Team Foundation Server:
Q: Is the “Azure DevOps Server 2019 Update 1.1 Patch 4 Release Date: July 14, 2020” update cumulative? Do ...
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How to disable TfsComProviderSvr.exe?
The same problem happened to me as well. I did kill the process (TfsComProviderSvr.exe) from task manager but it restarts itself automatically.
However, the high CPU usage and WinExplorer'hangging ...
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Azure DevOps: Query work items by state of related items
This question was answered over on StackOverflow here
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59849257/azure-devops-query-work-items-by-state-of-related-items/59856077#59856077
Thanks to user: Leo Liu-...
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Power BI - Apply Query from Azure DevOps server stuck
Complex Query definitions often don't scale well. I would try to keep the Query definitions as simple as possible, e.g. without Merge Queries and aggregations. Calculated columns are OK - not ...
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Team Foundation Server - Git Enabled Team Project vs Git Team Project
I can`t find any problem description related to tfvc in your question.
There is no big difference between projects with default Tfvc and Git. For Tfvc project, you just get additional repository for ...
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TFS Approvers Field in Release Management - Some Groups Are Missing
Answering my own question to save some others the trouble.
The issue stemmed from the order of the operations I pursued above. One must first grant security access to the team project (I used ...
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Who can get access to Visual Studio Team Services Package Management feeds?
Only users with VS Enterprise access to TFS are able to get to the Package Management "feeds.
Tip: For onprem TFS you can review who has that access level (or set it as Default access for all) here --...
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How secure is TFS Online?
Microsoft recently published a TFS Online Security Whitepaper that talks about the different security controls Microsoft uses. They describe, in my opinion, reasonable protections given the state of ...
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The Windows Installer Service could not be accessed in a TFS post-build script
Adding the build account as a member of the local administrators on the build machine (followed by a reboot) helped get rid of the error for me.
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Import Data into Visual Studio Online
Use the Team tab in Excel to connect to the VSTS instance.
Connect to your team project hosted in VSTS.
Make sure your cursor is in a cell that contains data, otherwise the Publish button might ...
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What do these options do to an already checked out file in TFS?
TFS will detect a conflict between the requested version on the server, and the files you have checked out locally.
In the "Pending changes" window, you'll be able to select whether to keep the ...
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Can I resize the backlog item description panel in TFS web view?
I'm using TFS 2013 and unfortunately it looks like there's no way to resize the description panel, its size seems to be fixed and part of the overlay backlog item window.
Each panel (Description, ...
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