Knock Knock. Who’s There? Me. Too Bad. Go Away.

Yup, that’s right. Team Foundation Sever told me TOO BAD, SO SAD, GO AWAY, TRY AGAIN ANOTHER DAY. What a great way to start a Monday. Oh, any by the way, we have an emergency release that might have to get pushed out. We’re waiting on upper management to make the final decision… fun-fun it is.

Photo By: Auntie P

This weekend I rebuilt my machine. I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 Laptop and it came loaded with Vista Business (and TONS of junk-ware I don’t need/nor care about). The one thing I love is that to restore back to factory settings only took about 10 minutes. Yes, 10 minutes – that’s craziness. Most rebuilds take hours (unless you’re using Ghost or something like that). There is a little partition on the drive that has the factory restore files on it. Just boot into the boot menu during start up (F8) and then choose restore to factory default and you’ll have a factory machine within 10 minutes, total awesome-ness.

After I spend the next 6-8 hours installing VS2005, VS2008 (yes, I need both, some clients will only have VS2005 and the solution files in VS2005 and VS2008 are different, by a line), Office 2007, and my list of tools that are close to Hanselmans tools list I finally was ready to get back to work on Monday. I came in today and tried to connect to TFS (2005). Nope. Not going to happen. Here’s the error:

 

TF31002: Unable to connect to this Team Foundation Server (…) Please contact your TFS Administrator.

 

Me: *Expletive*

Great, I am the TFS administrator. I have FULL access rights to TFS, I AM THE ADMINISTRATOR!! I have no idea why this would happen. I was able to connect last Friday, on Saturday before the re-install and team members are working against TFS as I speak. Then I rebooted, tried a few other things. Checked Windows firewall and a few other places. Nope. Still didn’t work.

Me: *Expletive*

The Fix

I had a hunch this was caused by some type of interception of a call to TFS. I then decided to uninstall Macfee Anti-Virus because, well, because I can’t stand anti-virus software that bloats my system. After the always-required-reboot, I started up VS2005 and tried to connect to TFS.

It worked.

I wanted to know if anyone else had this problem so I did a little poking around and I found this thread on the MSDN forums. It looks like this is the EXACT problem that I had.

Oh what a joy AV software is. Actually, I can’t stand it – not one bit.