What happens if you delete microsoft team foundation server

#What happens if you delete microsoft team foundation server how to#

You access the TFS 2008 Server box itself as the server administrator.

You try to remove the team project since you heard of 'tfsdeleteproject.exe', a command-line tool.

You, as the TFS server administrator, are called in to remove that team project.

The team member attempts to delete the project by right-clicking on it from the 'Folders' pane of the Source Control Explorer window only to discover that the delete option is greyed out.

The only problem is, it does not disappear from the Source Control Explorer window

The team member finds that it is easy to remove 'test4' from the Team Explorer window.

A team member (one which has full control over the team project 'test4') attempts to delete 'test4' from Visual Studio 2008.

This tutorial will take you through the whole process in such a case so that team projects can actually be deleted. If you can't delete the team project initially by using the command-line tool, adding '/force' to it will not change anything. I found out that as far back as 2005 TFS was purposefully designed so you could not delete a team project that easily (you could remove the team project name from the Team Explorer pane itself but that does not actually get rid of it).Д«ut, even if you are a server administrator for the TFS server box, you may not have the permissions needed to delete the team project using the command-line tool 'tfsdeleteproject.exe'. As it turns out, that is NOT necessarily the case.

One would think, when first starting out, that you would be able to just right-click on the team project name in Visual Studio 2008 in either the Team Explorer pane or the Source Control Explorer window because your account has full control over the team project.

#What happens if you delete microsoft team foundation server how to#

The purpose of this tutorial is to demonstrate how to delete those team projects that are not needed anymore, like those n00b team projects that are created when you are just trying to figure out how to use TFS 2008 when you get your hands on it for the first time. Looking For Team Foundation Server 2008 Tutorials? Go here.