COM error with October 2008 Release of TFS Power Tools

Lately many of our customers get the following error while opening Visual Studio using TFS:

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Microsoft Visual Studio
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Team Foundation Error

Creating an instance of the COM component with CLSID {B69003B3-C55E-4B48-836C-BC5946FC3B28} from the IClassFactory failed due to the following error: 8007000e.
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OK  
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The problem is related to the new (October 2008) Power Tools release: "Team Members" function is not working good with Windows Live Messenger on.

According to the post above Making a long story short, the solutions available are:

1. Open VS 2008 and wait until Team Members is not "working..."
2. Right-click on it and select Personal Settings
3. Under Collaboration, click Change
4. On the opened dialog select None and click OK
5. Click OK once again

OR

Close Messenger before VS Starts

Hope it solves your problem

, let’s hope the next release of TFS Power Tools will fix it.