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Login to Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 with another account / from another domain

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A few days ago I and my colleague Wesley had a lot of problems installing of Team Foundation Server on Windows Server 2008 with a Separate SQL Server 2008 and SharePoint Farm. After a couple days of hard work we finally got it running.

When we completed the installation we began testing it on our local systems. On our local system everything went fine but when we tried it on a Virtual Machine that we use for developing solution for SharePoint we could not connect to the Team Foundation Server.

The problem here was that the Virtual Machine has its own domain so the account that you are logged in with could not authenticate to the TFS server.

To get around this you have to specify a network account by following the following steps (Windows Server 2008):

1: Start – Control Panel
2: In the Control Panel select User Accounts.
3: On the left side of the screen select Manage your network passwords.

NetworkAccounts

4: Click add and insert the right information.

networkcredentials

5: Click “Ok” when you are done and on the other screen select “close”

Try connecting to the Team Foundation Server again. Now everything should work perfectly.

Team Foundation Server Installation Error: 28938

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For the last couple of days my colleague and I have been installing Team Foundation Server 2008 on Windows Server 2008 with a separate SQL 2008 and SharePoint 2007 server.

The errors pops up like nothing I have ever seen before. One of the most annoying errors we came across was this one:

“Error:28938.TFSServerStatusValidator: The tool could not call the Team Foundation Server Registration Web Service. The call failed with the following status: 401 HTTP Unauthorized. Verify that Internet Information Services (IIS), Windows SharePoint Services, and ASP.Net are configured correctly and that IIS allows ASP.Net 2.0 Web service extensions.”

After days of research (even using Network Monitoring) to figure out what was going wrong we stumbled on something really small. When we installed IIS on the server it did not automatically install the Windows Authentication Role service as part of IIS. Because it did not install this service you cannot login. After the installation of it the Team Foundation Server Installation went like a charm.

If you have already installed IIS you have to do the following to install the Windows Authentication Feature:

  • Press start on the server were you would like to install the feature.
  • Administrative tools – Server manager
  • On the left side of the screen select roles and scroll down to Web Server IIS
  • Select add Role Services
  • In the setup screen select windows authentication and press next.
  • On the confirmation screen select install.