The actual goal of my previous post was the installation of SharePoint (Foundation) 2013 to be connected with TFS 2012 RC. By default, TFS 2012 RC ships with SharePoint Foundation 2010, but I wanted to use the newest 2013 version of SharePoint.
The installation of TFS 2012 on my Windows Server 2012 was quite straight forward, no special things, no errors, just great! I used the “Advanced” option so I could select my SSRS and SSAS instances, and also select my SharePoint instance. All 3 of them were automatically recognized by the TFS installation wizard, which is really a great experience! Well done Microsoft!
After the installation it was time to create a new Team Project using Visual Studio 2012 RC. I followed the creation wizard, but then I had a strange error when the Team Project was being created:
Exception Message: TF249033: The site template is not available for the locale identifier (LCID). The site template name is: Team Foundation Server Project Portal. The LCID is: 1033.
Hmm that’s strange. The template is not available for the locale ID. But I did an installation of Windows Server, SQL Server, SharePoint, in English (that’s what the 1033 means). That’s the point that I posted an issue on the MSDN forum, and there I got this answer from Kelly McBride from the TFS Team:
TFS RC Dashboards do not support latest mode site collections. For the RC dashboards, please use a legacy (2010) mode site collection. RTM Dashboards will support latest mode site collections.
And indeed, that solved the issue. SharePoint 2013 has the possibility to select in which ‘mode’ your Site Collection has to run in. As for now, until TFS 2012 RTM is there, we need to have a 2010-version of our Site Collection. To resolve the error, I performed those steps:
First step is to delete your ‘old’ site collection. Go to your SharePoint Central Administration and click on ‘Delete Site Collection’:
Select your site collection. This is the one that has been created by TFS (when your Team Project Collection was created). And click ‘Delete‘
After you Site Collection has been deleted, create a new one with the same name. Otherwise you have to change the SharePoint site settings in the TFS Administration console to point to this new Site Collection. In my case, I just used the same name. To create a new one, go back to the Application Management section, and select ‘Create Site Collections’. Provide a title, description and an address. The most important thing is the ‘experience version‘. You have to select 2010 instead of 2013. If you select 2010, you will see the option to select the TFS Project Portal template. And that’s what we are looking for. Don’t forget to select the collection administrator too.
Click on the ‘OK‘ button, and your Site Collection should be created. Now let’s create a new Team Project again, et voila, no error this time. SharePoint 2013 is succesfully connected to TFS 2012 RC.
Thanks for reading!
