One for the Team Foundation Server gurus

[NewsBot]

Hey !!

 

Well i finally got round to installing Visual Studio 2008 on my Vista developer machine. My other machines ive kept on VS2005 SP1 for the moment whilst i play with 2008 a bit more.

 

Now im having a very odd problem with Team foundation server. Basically i have a LAN with 5 machines that run in a workgroup (no domain here at home) and at the centre of activity is a Windows Server 2003 machine. The Windows Server 2003 Machine runs virtual server and Team Foundation server 2005 (its quite a beefy machine with 8gb of ram allowing me to run multiple virtual machines). Now this weekend ive setup a new virtual machine on the server 2003 box. The new virtual machine is server 2003 with VS Team found server 2008.

 

To keep a long post short all the boxs can see the new team foundation server and connect to it ok. However the VS2005 with sp1 i had to install a compatability patch for team explorer to be able to create projects on WSS3.0.

 

Ok so the new virtual machine as i said its server 2003 , windows sharepoint services 3.0 and sql server 2005 enterprise edition.

 

All seems to be running and working ok. The vista machine can connect to the VSTFS2008 , can check files in, can even make builds.

 

Now te odd problem im having is if i right click on the project and select show project portal , the project portal comes up in a new IE7 window. Now if i select "Project Management" on the left hand side, then when it loads the documents if i select explorer view it asks for my name and password. So if i input this it then pops up again and repeats popping up until i press cancel. Now on the vista machine when you press cancel i just get a "IE could not load this page" etc etc. On the xp machines when you press cancel the explorer web folder view loads :s if i try directly on the server it just plain fails but from researching i understand this is because server 2003 doesnt support webdav.

 

Now on VSTFS2005 i didnt have this problem and web folders in explorer view loaded fine.

 

Whats missing here ? how can i get web folder expplorer view for project portal documents to work as it should ? any ideas ?

 

Ive looked at all permissions and authentication and i cant see basic authentication being used anywhere (as the sharepoint server whitepaper suggest this can be a cause). The fact that the xp machines can connect to the vstf2005 and view explorer view in the project portal ok, but not with vstfs2008 suggests this is a vstfs2008/wss 3.0 problem ?

 

Any help would be appreciated

 

More...

 

View All Our Microsft Related Feeds