Exception:

MSBUILD : error MSB4016: The build stopped unexpectedly because the "WorkflowCentralLogger" logger failed unexpectedly during initialization. TF400324: Team Foundation services are not available from server <TFS Server>.Technical information (for administrator):The proxy name could not be resolved: <Proxy Server>

Work Around:

Perform the following steps on Build controller & agent

1. Clean user cache

• To clear the TFS client cache, delete all the contents under “C:\Users\[User]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation\”

2. Reboot

Warning 

Explanation:

Team Foundation Server doesn't allow editing the actual HTML out of the fields. The text typed in Excel would be published without any of its HTML tags and that is the reason that it lost its formatting.

Following link has the reason why Microsoft wouldn't allow HTML editing

http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/2680660-add-html-field-editing-to-excel-for-work-items

Exception:

"Error: Access Denied" appears. User cannot upload the .SWF file". 

Explanation:

Users with contributor permissions are prevented from uploading files with extensions ASPX,MASTER,XAP,SWF,JAR,ASMX,ASCX,XSN and XSF

Solution:

1. Provide "design" permission to the users trying to upload the restricted extensions
2. These restricted extensions are listed in the WebFileExtensions property of the WebApplication. The WebFileExtensions property can be programatically edited as follows

  PowerShell script to list the WebFileExtensions property            

$WebApp = Get-SPWebApplication https://<SharePoint Site Collection URL>/
$Extensions = $WebApp.WebFileExtensions
$Extensions | ForEach-Object {Write-Host $_}

PowerShell script to remove the .swf restriction from the WebFileExtensions property

$WebApp = Get-SPWebApplication http://<SharePoint Site Collection URL>/
$Extensions = $WebApp.WebFileExtensions
$Ext = $Extensions.Remove("swf")
$WebApp.Update()

Solution:

Following are the steps to configure TFS alerts via a text message

1.Open team project alerts page : 
http://<TFS SERVER>:8080/tfs/<COLLECTION NAME>/<PROJECT NAME>/_admin/_alerts

2.Enter cell phone number @ your carrier’s email in "send to" field to the existing or new alerts.
Send To: T-MobileNumber@tmomail.net

Carrier Email to SMS gateway

Solution:

1. Open Notepad.

2. Edit the file with the following details

3. Save the file as "IE11.browser" under "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio <Version>\Common7\IDE\Templates\LoadTest\Browsers"