Author: KimC

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.

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.

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.

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