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April 19, 2005
Visual Studio Team Server Successfully Installed
I decided to repave the two machines that I was using for the Dec CTP, rather that have to be concerned with trying to remove all of the incompatible components. My new configuration consists of four separate machines:
Domain Controller on Windows 2003 with TFSSETUP and TFSSERVICE
Single server deployment of Team Foundation Server on Windows 2003 SP1
Team Build on Windows 2003 SP1
Visual Studio 2005 on Windows XP
I followed Rob Caron's detailed Installation Guide. The install went well with only one minor glitch.
When I got to the 'Service Logon Account' dialog (in the Team Server Installer), the system complained that TFSSERVICE was an invalid account/password. I was currently logged on as TFSSETUP, as directed by the install guide. When I logged out and tried to log in as TFSSERVICE (I'm using Remote Desktop Connection), I got an invalid RPC connection message box. I got the same message whenever I attempted to login with a domain account. I was finally able to log in using the local admin account.
I checked Computer Management | Local Users and Groups | Groups | Administrators | Properties to confirm that TFSSERVICE was correctly in there. However, it only showed the raw SIDs for the domain account. Somehow it looks like it lost it's connection to the DC.
After rebooting and logging in again as TFSSETUP, I went back to the Local Administrator properties and all of the domain users showed up correctly. I restarted the installer and this time it accepted the TFSSERVICE account and password.
So, things look like they're installed properly. The real test will come next when I setup a new team project.
Stay tuned.
Posted by Mike Attili at April 19, 2005 12:05 AM