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Foundation Server Dec CTP installation went smoothly…

Last week I installed Foundation Server Dec CTP, it went very smoothly when compared to its previous release. During installation I got only one error that too because of memory problems. I tried to install foundation server in my desktop with around 400mb memory for app tier and data tier, I got few timeout errors like this;

Event Description: Initialization for plugin "Microsoft.Pcw.Rosetta" failed with error: "Failed to retrieve projects from the report server"
Exception Type: Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamSystem.ELead.ProjectCreationNew.RosettaInitializationException
Exception Message: Failed to retrieve projects from the report server

InnerException:
Exception Type: System.Net.WebException
Exception Message: The operation has timed-out.
WebException: Status : Timeout

Then I guessed this might be due to memory problems, and then I moved my virtual machines to server where I could allocate 1 GB memory for both data tier and app tier. It installed very smoothly.

You should take care of following things while re-installing foundation server in same machine after any error

1. Uninstall Adam Instance
2. Restart app tier after Adam uninstall
3. Uninstall Data tier and restart Data Tier. [Uninstall of Data tier works perfectly]

Though foundation server installation went through smoothly, I got following errors when I tried to create portfolio project.

1. Currituck failed error during portfolio project creation like this,

Initialization for plugin "Microsoft.Pcw.currituck" failed with error
"Access Denied: Not a system user"

 This is a known bug in this release. Reason and Solution for this problem is explained  in my another blog,

2. SccTask failed error during portfolio project creation like this,

Task "Scc.SccTask" failed
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException
The added or subtracted value results in an unrepresentable DateTime

This is also a known bug. Workaround for this problem is explained in Team system blog.