This week Hostbridge published a case study about a project I worked on at my previous employer.  The cool thing is they quoted me in it.  Hostbridge was a great company to work with and their product made integrating with the mainframe much easier by turning the CICS screens into web services and the fields into XML. 

http://www.hostbridge.com/index.php/news/update/20090224/#study

The mainframe integration with Hostbridge was part of a larger customer data integration project that used Biztalk.  Microsoft also did a case study on it.  I didn't get any quotes with this one though.  

http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=48659

Mike

I was installing Team Foundation Server on virtual server for some testing.  The last install I did went flawless.   A quick and painless install is always appreciated but there is something that feels victorious about successfully troubleshooting the install and getting it to work properly.  In this case I ran into two errors.  Also here's some general troubleshooting information that I found useful in identifying the issues.

General Troubleshooting

When troubleshooting installation errors for Team Foundation Server there are a couple places that can provide useful information.  First is obviously the message box.  It will usually have something about the error to get started.  If you close the error, you can still usually find the message in the Application Event Log.  There may also be additional errors in the event log that can help.  If you need more information on the error, you can look in the Local Settings\Temp folder for the current user (C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Temp).  There are three files that I find the most useful. 

• VSMsiLogxxxx.txt - Detailed installation steps of MSI and where it failed.
• dd_error_vstf_at_90.txt - Lists the error message for each installation attempt.
• dd_install_vstf_at_90.txt - Detailed steps of the installation steps.

Error 28002. An unknown error occurred.

The first error I didn't find the solution that fixed this issue.  There were a lot of suggestions and I might have missed it.  After trying a couple of the suggestions, I remembered that I had Team Explorer with SP1 already installed.  I uninstalled this and it fixed the issue.

Error 28805. The setup program cannot complete the request to the server that is running SQL Server Reporting Services.

I had better luck with this error.  I found a good post on the MSDN forums with the answer.  There were several suggestions that I tried.  Deleting of the encryption keys in the SQL Reporting Configuration Tool fixed it and I was able to continue the install and complete it successfully.

To delete this run the Reporting Services Configuration tool.  Click on Encryption Keys on the left tool bar.  Then click on Delete to delete the keys.  You should see a message similar to the one below.

Good luck and may all of your TFS installations be successful.

Mike