Tweet I consider myself a calm person with plenty of tolerance, I believe in productive discussion and love it – Part of my job as a consultant is to talk with Teams and explain them why you should choose a specific product over another, in 99.9% of those meetings there is one guy that don’t like the change (No One Like Changes) and you need in a calm way to explain and show him the benefits of the new tool – Forcing someone to do something is never a good thing. But sometimes there is no wining...

Problem: I was approached by my friend Nimrod Stern to help him with a problem he had regarding TFS reports. When trying to open a TFS report the following error was received: An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted) Query execution failed for dataset 'dsIteration'. (rsErrorExecutingCommand) Errors in the metadata manager. An error occurred when loading the Team System cube, from the file, '\\?\C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSAS10_50.MSSQLSERVER\OLAP...

Administrative Report Pack for Team Foundation Server 2010 Couple of days ago Grant Holliday's post about new Reports pack for TFS admins to answer the following question: How long is cube processing taking? How much time elapses between processing jobs? How often do the processing jobs run? Do errors occur with when the cube is processed? Process Times: Current Processing Status This table tells you whether the warehouse is currently being processed or when it will be processed next. The Next...

When we Change an Existing TFS 2010 Report and  upload it to the ‘TFS report site’ in order to add it to a specific team project ( How to Add TFS 2010 Report to a Team Project ) we many times want to change the default parameters of that report. If you try to add default values of a parameter it should work when you’ll upload the new report to the report site and you will see the changes. if you try to delete one of the default values, when you upload the file you will not see the changes. The...

Create OLAP Failed – XML parsing failed at line 1, column 0: A document must contain exactly one root element. I’ve visit one of my customers and saw a strange error in the event log: Errors in the metadata manager. An error occurred when instantiating a metadata object from the file, '\\?\C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.2\OLAP\Data\TfsWarehouse.0.db\Today.886.dim.xml'. Detailed Message: Create OLAP failed Exception Message: XML parsing failed at line 1, column 0: A document must...

Some Team Foundation Server 2008 Reports give errors with SQL Server 2008 Some reports will generate errors, when no errors occur with the same reports if used against SQL Server 2005. Depending on the specific data available for the report, and parameters selected, you may see errors similar to the following. You may also see some variations of these error messages, or see errors listed under a reports below when viewing other reports. The full error information will appear only if viewing the reports...

Email Reporter: VSTS 2008 Load Test Plug-in Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team System Test Edition provides a powerful platform to perform high volume load testing. It also provides high end flexibilities to write and utilize external plug-in for extended functionalities. "Email Reporter: VSTS 2008 Load Test Plug-in" enables users to send the load test reports to one or more pre-configured email addresses automatically, once a VSTS Load Test is completed. This open-source load test plug-in...

Announcing TFS Performance Report Pack Grant Holliday upload TFS Performance Reports that Microsoft use. Quote” We have a responsibility to ensure that the server is performing as expected and to identify any efficiencies that can be made in the server or the tools.  To do this, we have created a number of reports that we use ourselves and make available to our own users. “ The Full Article + Download Execution Time Summary Server Status - Source Control Request Queue Server Status - Top Users...

Failed To Create Maintenance Plan For TFS Backup After installing TFS 2008 I want to create maintenance plan using SSMS to create a Backup plan How To: Backing Up a Team Foundation Server database . When creating new maintenance plan I got an error. Then I saw that SQL Databases is upgraded to SP2 but not the Client Tools. So Download SQL Server SP2 and make sure to select the right components. After installing SP2 for the Client Tool I was able to create the maintenance plan for backup TFS Databases...

Error While Trying To Create OLAP Cube One of my customers failed to get up to date Reports from TFS. Looking in one of the reports I saw that the last time the warehouse was update is Two Month Ago! I tried to process the cube manually and this got nothing, so I checked the event log and I saw couple of errors related to the warehouse. I tried to Rebuild the cube using SetupWarehouse.exe and get another error. An unexpected error occurred: Some or all identity references could not be translated...