I created a build that I want to run every night on my team foundation server. When I ran it it says:

System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: TF42046: The build service used in the build process is not reachable. This error occurs when either the build machine is off-line, the required service is not running, Team Build in not installed on the build machine, Team Build...

I guess the team build is not installed on that machine?

I found some instructions about running the setup.exe in the bb directory on the team foundation server cd, but there is only one there for Build. Some of the stuff I've read about installing it is a little scary.

What is the official procedure for installing the team build on the team foundation server?

Thanks for any help you can give.

You should find the instructions in the following guides.

Latest Administration Guide | Latest Installation Guide

Buck

Hi,

We did the following to get Team Build installed:

1. On the TFS server run the setup.exe in the build folder on the TFS CD

2. We created the following three (3) directories for use by the build server
c:\tfs
c:\tfs\drop
c:\tfs\build
We granted full permissions to the tfsservice account to those folders and created a made DROP a network share with read access for our developers.

3. Team Foundation Build requires Visual Studio Team System Developer or Tester be installed on the Team Build Server

That should do it.

Wes.