There has been a lot of errors with various versions of TFS/DevOps Server about obsoleted builds in the drop folders, and the various versions have fixed part of it. Here comes a script to identify them.
Continue reading “BuildDrop cleanup”Author: KimC
TFS admin and deployment fellow
Security fix for TFS 2017/2018
Microsoft released a new security fix for TFS.
see Link
Security fix for TFS 2017/2018
Microsoft have released security fixes for TFS 2017 and 2018.
See Link
Cleanup workspaces
To be honest, how many of you do cleanup of workspaces when people leave or just get a new computer?
It is one of those tasks that it is good to execute regularly, to keep the numbers low, as it affects the upgrade speed of the TFS server.
Continue reading “Cleanup workspaces”Build blocked by Release
Due to the nature of the build and release services in TFS, strange things can happen.
Just discovered that we had some builds that was marked “retained by release”, as usual, but looking at the details pane, there wasn’t any related deployments, so we wasn’t able to delete those builds.
Security fix for TFS 2017 and 2018
Microsoft have release a hotfix for TFS 2017 and 2018, that fixes potential cross site scripting.
see TFS hotfix
List teams and users
From time to time, it can be handy to use the Team configuration and members in TFS to set permissions in another application.
