Explanation:

You will not be able to work on your existing workspace, if your computer name is changed. You may get error messages while you try accessing the source repository.

Solution:

1. Open Visual Studio command console and execute the below command

tf workspaces /updateComputerName:<OldComputerName> /s:<ServerName>

2. Install Team Foundation Sidekicks.

• Open the workspace Sidekick
• click Search
• Select your workspace from the list.
• Click the blue computer icon to Update Workspace Computer Name

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

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

Explanation:

VS 2012 update 3 failed to install on Windows 7 64 bit OS due to Microsoft Root Certificates

Exception: 

"Microsoft Root Certificate Authority 2010 or 2011 is missing and can cause installation failures for some signed packages.  For more info, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931125."

Solution:

• Go to this page http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=38918
• Download and run rootsupd.exe

Note: You may see "Update for Root Certificates For Windows XP" in the site page. But the executable work on win 7 and also fix the issue.

• Try to install VS 2013 Update 3 again.

Explanation:

TFS user was not able to connect to TFS through Eclipse plugin from linux box. TFS connection hangs forever. When I tried to debug, I found the user was not able connect to intranet\internet within Eclipse IDE.

Solution:

Enabled the proxy settings in the Eclipse IDE. Following are the steps

1. Open Eclipse

2. Go to "Windows" --> " Preferences" menu

3. Expand "general"

4. Select  "Network Connections"

5. Select "Active Provider" as manual

6. Select " HTTP " --> click "Edit"  --> Enter Host as "Your proxy server" and port as "Your proxy server port (usually 80)" --> click "ok" --> click "ok" --> click "apply"

7. Restart "Eclipse"

8. Try connecting to TFS Server.