Moving From One Computer To Another With Existing Checkouts In TFS (Team Foundation Server)
My laptop was corrupted and decided to move to another laptop at work. I had existing checkouts so I copied all the code involved to the new laptop. Then I couldn’t add the workspace with the same name as it kept saying the workspace exists on my old machine.
I looked around at posts on the internet and they were suggesting to use the tfs commands
I tried to use
tf workspaces [/updateComputerName:oldComputerName][workspacename]
Now I don’t know what was wrong but it didn’t work at all. So I took the brute force approach and updated the TFS database itself using the SQL management studio.
I used
UPDATE [TFSDBName].[dbo].[tbl_Workspace]
SET Computer = ‘NewMachineName’ WHERE Computer = ‘OldMachineName’
and that worked a treat. If your worried then do a select first and make sure you know how many it should be updating first and do a begin transaction before the statement – just to make sure your updating the right amount. Or even do a select afterwards to see the data changed and then issue a commit command.
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