Summary: I was doing a Team Foundation Server 2010 (TFS2010) migration project for a customer a few weeks ago and ran into problems when attempting to attach a migrated Team Project Collection (TPC). Although the customer assured me that the source instance of TFS2010 had never been attached to Microsoft Project Server, the collection contained some dependency on a work item field used by Project Server and the “attach” failed.
Under the surface, when TFS2010 needs to perform a “servicing operation” such as attaching a TPC, it uses a number of different XML-based scripts that describe the operations it should perform. The workaround was to temporarily modify the servicing operation script that TFS uses to attach the TPC.
The Problem: When attaching a Team Project Collection (TPC), the attach fails on the Project Server step with System.MissingFieldException: Field not found: ‘Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Common.CatalogResourceTypes.ProjectServerRegistration’.
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[Info @19:14:32.586] [2011-07-20 19:10:24Z] Servicing step Attach the Test Management Catalog Entries passed. (ServicingOperation: AttachCollection; Step group: AttachCollection.TfsTestManagement)
[Info @19:14:32.586] [2011-07-20 19:10:24Z] Executing servicing step Attach the Project Server Catalog Entries. (ServicingOperation: AttachCollection; Step group: AttachCollection.TfsProjectServer)
[Info @19:14:32.586] [2011-07-20 19:10:24Z][Informational] Step Performer: ProjectServer
[Info @19:14:32.586] [2011-07-20 19:10:24Z][Informational] Step Type: AttachCatalogEntries
[Info @19:14:32.586] [2011-07-20 19:10:24Z][Informational] Step Data Text:
[Info @19:14:32.586] [2011-07-20 19:10:24Z][Informational] Retrieving target request context.
[Info @19:14:32.586] [2011-07-20 19:10:24Z][Informational] Target request context has framework connection string: Data Source=tfssql;Initial Catalog=Tfs_MigratedTpc;Integrated Security=True.
[Info @19:14:32.586] [2011-07-20 19:10:24Z][Informational] ProjectServer: Retrieving PS nodes from Collection…
[Error @19:14:32.586] [2011-07-20 19:10:24Z][Error] Field not found: ‘Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Common.CatalogResourceTypes.ProjectServerRegistration’.
[Info @19:14:32.586] [2011-07-20 19:10:24Z][Informational] System.MissingFieldException: Field not found: ‘Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Common.CatalogResourceTypes.ProjectServerRegistration’.
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server.Servicing.TFCollection.ProjectServerStepPerformer.GetPWACatalogNodes(TeamFoundationRequestContext requestContext, TeamFoundationCatalogService catalogService)
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server.Servicing.TFCollection.ProjectServerStepPerformer.AttachCatalogEntries(String stepData, ServicingContext servicingContext, Boolean validateOnly)
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Server.TeamFoundationStepPerformerBase.Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Server.IStepPerformer.PerformStep(String servicingOperation, String stepType, String stepData, ServicingContext servicingContext)
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Server.ServicingStepDriver.PerformServicingStep(ServicingStep step, ServicingContext servicingContext, ServicingStepGroup group, ServicingOperation servicingOperation, Boolean validateOnly)
[Info @19:14:32.586] [2011-07-20 19:10:24Z] Servicing step Attach the Project Server Catalog Entries failed. (ServicingOperation: AttachCollection; Step group: AttachCollection.TfsProjectServer)
[Info @19:14:32.586] [2011-07-20 19:10:24Z][Informational] Clearing dictionary, removing all items.
[Error @19:14:32.586] The servicing operation failed.
The Solution: Temporarily modify AttachCollection.xml to skip the AttachCollection.TfsProjectServer ServicingStepGroup and then re-try the Attach Team Project Collection operation. Disclaimer: This is only a workaround and assumes that you have received this exception message in error and that you do not need or intend to use Microsoft Project Server with this TPC.
Step 1: Locate the AttachCollection.xml script (see Figure 1). This file is typically located in
C:Program FilesMicrosoft Team Foundation Server 2010ToolsDeployTfsServicingFilesCollectionOperations.
Figure 1. The xml scripts that define the TFS2010 servicing operations including AttachCollection.xml
Step 2: Make a backup copy of AttachCollection.xml.
Step 3: Open AttachCollection.xml in a text editor and locate the Project Server step group as shown in Figure 2. The text of the step group is <ServicingStepGroup name=”AttachCollection.TfsProjectServer”/>
Figure 2. The Project Server step group in AttachCollection.xml
Step 4: Comment out the Project Server ServicingStepGroup element as shown in Figure 3 by surrounding it with XML comment tags (<!– –>) and save the file.
Figure 3. The commented out Project Server ServicingStepGroup.
Step 5: Go to the TFS Administrator Console and attach the Team Project Collection. (This should now succeed.)
Step 6: Re-edit the AttachCollection.xml script so that the Project Server servicing step group is no longer commented out. When you are done with this step, the step should look like Figure 2 once again.
I hope this helps.
-Ben
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