The reporting warehouse for TFS is rebuild by default every hour. This is in normal situations accurate enough. However, when you are testing how your modifications to your TFS artiface will be represented in the reports, you want to force to rebuild the TFS warehouse. You can achieve that by openi... [More]

When I created a Team Project under the same account as the TFS installation was performed, I was able to create a new team project. Unfortunately, I got an error message that I did not have enough rights: ---begin Exception entry---Time: 2009-06-23 09:28:24ZModule: WSSException Type: Microsoft.Te... [More]

When you develop a new report for TFS and you want to deploy the report to all team projects, you have to do a lot of work to upload the file and to set the datasources. This post uses TFS 2008 and SQL Server 2005 There is an easy way to automate that. 1. Add the web service to Reporting Ser... [More]

To calculate the project velocity, TFS summarizes all remaining work of all work item types in the iteration. Imagine you have a breakdown of work items, such as at the top level a User Story, which is broken down into Tasks. The project velocity should be calculated by summarizing the Remaini... [More]

It is possible to add a SSRS report to your Project Portal. In this way you can create a nice dashboard on you portal home page. This dashboard can consist of multiple reports, or can vary for the different roles in your team. On the Site Actions menu, choose the Edit Page action Click on Add a ... [More]