Hi all,

i will tell you the whole story ......

Our domain has failed and replaced with a new domain server (named with same previous name and all active directory users have been recreated with the same previous names) ..... of course ... after this replacement i tried to load team foundation server but it fails to load error: a service unable to load  .... i tried to repair TFS from add/remove programs but the repair failed as it failed to locate some files like dataacesslayer.dll and other files and it output the path of the files a long path under c:\program files\[vs studio folder name]\[team foundation folder name]\program files\ ...... you can notice that the path is unreasonable and the repair process can't locate some files and this folder doesn't exists anyway ....!! and so he ouput a screen to retry or to ignore or to abort ... so after some retries ... the repair failed ..........!!!!!

i tried to repair it manullay by locating the services of tfs and i find a service called tfsscheduler i go to the logon and i applied the logon information which is the domain account Tfsservice and i applied its password ..... i tried to connect again but it gives this time "error 503 : service unavailable" !!

The following is the error log event of the problem:

[08/27/06,15:19:09] Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server - ENU: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : ERROR:Error 1309.Error reading from file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server - ENU\Program Files\TFS\Web Services\VersionControl\bin\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Server.dll.   Verify that the file exists and that you can access it.
[08/27/06,15:19:09] vs70uimgr: Entering DisplayMessage() method.
[08/27/06,15:19:09] vs70uimgr: DisplayMessage_START:Error 1309.Error reading from file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server - ENU\Program Files\TFS\Web Services\VersionControl\bin\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Server.dll.   Verify that the file exists and that you can access it.
[08/27/06,15:19:10] vs70uimgr: DisplayMessage_END:Error 1309.Error reading from file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server - ENU\Program Files\TFS\Web Services\VersionControl\bin\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Server.dll.   Verify that the file exists and that you can access it.
[08/27/06,15:19:10] Setup.exe: AddGlobalCustomProperty
[08/27/06,15:19:10] Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server - ENU: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : ERROR:Error 1309.Error reading from file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server - ENU\Program Files\TFS\Web Services\VersionControl\bin\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Server.dll.   Verify that the file exists and that you can access it.
[08/27/06,15:19:10] vs70uimgr: Entering DisplayMessage() method.
[08/27/06,15:19:10] vs70uimgr: DisplayMessage_START:Error 1309.Error reading from file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server - ENU\Program Files\TFS\Web Services\VersionControl\bin\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Server.dll.   Verify that the file exists and that you can access it.
[08/27/06,15:19:11] vs70uimgr: DisplayMessage_END:Error 1309.Error reading from file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server - ENU\Program Files\TFS\Web Services\VersionControl\bin\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Server.dll.   Verify that the file exists and that you can access it.
[08/27/06,15:19:11] Setup.exe: AddGlobalCustomProperty
[08/27/06,15:19:11] Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server - ENU: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : ERROR:Error 1309.Error reading from file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server - ENU\Program Files\TFS\Web Services\VersionControl\bin\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Server.dll.   Verify that the file exists and that you can access it.
[08/27/06,15:19:11] vs70uimgr: Entering DisplayMessage() method.
[08/27/06,15:19:11] vs70uimgr: DisplayMessage_START:Error 1309.Error reading from file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server - ENU\Program Files\TFS\Web Services\VersionControl\bin\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Server.dll.   Verify that the file exists and that you can access it.
[08/27/06,15:19:12] vs70uimgr: DisplayMessage_END:Error 1309.Error reading from file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server - ENU\Program Files\TFS\Web Services\VersionControl\bin\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Server.dll.   Verify that the file exists and that you can access it.
[08/27/06,15:19:12] Setup.exe: AddGlobalCustomProperty
[08/27/06,15:19:13] Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server - ENU: ***ERRORLOG EVENT*** : ERROR:Error 1309.Error reading from file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server - ENU\Program Files\TFS\Web Services\VersionControl\bin\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Server.dll.   Verify that the file exists and that you can access it.
[08/27/06,15:19:13] vs70uimgr: Entering DisplayMessage() method.

Hi Maged,

Are you still having trouble repairing? Please let me know and I will find someone to help if needed.

Thanks,
-Matt

I'm assuming you have data in your databases that you want to keep.

Best thing to do at this point is uninstall both the AT & DT and you might have to deal with SQL & WSS too as they have domain account issues (but try without first). Reinstall DT & AT, we'll recognize existing DBs and use them and you should be mostly fine. I think you could potentially have access issues as the SIDs for the accounts have changed.

marc

Thanks much for ur help .....

but i have explanations for what AT & DT stands for?! and what WSS stands for?

I expected u mean that i uninstall the team foundation server and then reinstall it agian and i will find my projects as it is as it is in the SQL server DBs of the team foundation server .... is this right?!!!

again thanks for your help

Maged