Hello

I have succesfully set up a Team Foundation Server and fowarded the needed ports in the router so my team can access from "outside", but I get those Red X's on "Documents" and "Reports" in VS 2005. Have read somewhere that it has to do with port forwarding, but all the nessesary ports from the installation guide is set up correctly, I have checked with another service set up to answer on those ports. And I have no problem accessing SharePoint documents on the team site, and I have no problems accessing the http://server/Reports site. Some reports work on the Team Site and some don't.

I have no problem accessing everything from the local network. Have also checked that the needed SQL services respond on external connections.

Please help

Hello,

Have you been able to resolve this issue? If not, please let me know and I can find help.

Thanks,
-Matt

No, I have not been able to resolve this issue yet

We send the registered URL's for Sharepoint and Reporting back to the client - based on a default install, those are "internal" names (the hostname of the app tier). If those aren't resolvable to an "outside" client, when it goes to connect to those url's, it will fail.

You can see which URL's are registered by logging into the app tier and invoking GetRegistrationEntries (http://localhost:8080/services/v1.0/registration.asmx?op=GetRegistrationEntries) with an empty toolId - in the XML that comes back, you'll see RegistrationEntry's for Reports and Wss (the Type elements in those stanzas). If you try those exact url's (no hostname changing) from the "outside" clients, does it work? I'm assuming not.

In that case, you'll want to have a name that works for both "internal" and "external" clients, then change the registration url's so those are the ones hit. An example of this (in this case, going through an ISA server) is at: http://www.vergentsoftware.com/blogs/ckinsman/CommentView.aspx?guid=4f5f8046-c0a6-4fd4-844f-128b03fba264