Several things can go wrong with the Sharepoint portion of TFS after a restore.

Did the name of the server change after the restore?

Did you keep a backup of the Sharepoint databases after installation but before restoring?

My own experiences have gine me the impression that sharepoint is very fragile. The only way I have been successful in restoring sharepoint with TFS was by not restoring the config database, just the content database. This was a restore onto a machine with a different server name however, but I got the same sorts of errors as what you first posted.

Check out this post: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=505756&SiteID=1

From the Sharepoint Administration site:

Configure virtual server settings
Default Web Site
Manage Content Databases

From here you should see the list of content database and be able to add and remove them.

It is hard to find some of these things in sharepoint, I always have to look around a little before I find anything.

Hi ..

I am facing peculiar problem with the restoration of TFS backup. Right now we have TFS running in production environ. We were looking to restore the backups taken from the production environ. to another server. The restoration is done as per your instructions listed on these pages.

The problem we face is that after the restore .. When we open the Report services page it says that the Database is not initialised but while going to the Reporting Services Config. of Sql Server and trying to initialise the DB an error occurs

"ReportServicesConfigUI.WMIProvider.WMIProviderException: The report server installation is not initialized. (rsReportServerNotActivated)
at ReportServicesConfigUI.WMIProvider.RSReportServerAdmin.ThrowOnError(ManagementBaseObject mo)
at ReportServicesConfigUI.WMIProvider.RSReportServerAdmin.InitializeReportServer(String installationId)"

and the DB is not getting initialised.

The other error is we could not connect to the TFS thru Team Explorer. It keeps on asking the username & pwd even if we give the correct name & pwd.

Prior to the backup restore on the Test Server .. we were able to connect to the Test Server TFS thru Team explorer.

The error which comes is TF30291 there was a problem on the server of unknown cause. The event log error shows as follows (there are FOUR error).. Could you enlighten me .. on what could be the problem ..

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First event

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An unexpected condition has occurred in a Team Foundation component. The information contained here should be made available to your site administrative staff.
Technical Information (for the administrative staff):
Date (UTC): 10/7/2006 9:25:30 AM
Machine: OTBPDC
Application Domain: /LM/W3SVC/3/Root/services-1-128046860992343750
Assembly: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a; v2.0.50727
Process Details:
Process Name: w3wp
Process Id: 2652
Thread Id: 2852
Account name: ODESSAPDC01\tfsservice

Detailed Message: A crash report for this problem was recently created; a new crash report for this occurrence of the problem is not being created. This problem has occurred 3 times.
Web Request Details
Url: http://otbpdc:8080/Services/v1.0/ServerStatus.asmx [method: POST]
User Agent: Team Foundation (devenv.exe, 8.0.50727.43)
Headers: Connection=Keep-Alive&Content-Length=354&Content-Type=text%2fxml%3b+charset%3dutf-8&Accept-Encoding=gzip&Accept-Language=en-US&Expect=100-continue&Host=otbpdc%3a8080&User-Agent=Team+Foundation+(devenv.exe%2c+8.0.50727.43)&X-TFS-Version=1.0.0.0&SOAPAction=%22http%3a%2f%2fschemas.microsoft.com%2fTeamFoundation%2f2005%2f06%2fServices%2fServerStatus%2f02%2fCheckAuthentication%22
Path: /Services/v1.0/ServerStatus.asmx
Local Request: True
Host Address: 192.168.0.50
User: ODESSAPDC01\IUSR_OTBPDC [authentication type: ]

Exception Message: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. (type NullReferenceException)

Exception Stack Trace: at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server.SecurityManager.IPrincipalToSidString(IPrincipal user)
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server.ServerStatus.CheckAuthentication()

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Second event

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An unexpected condition has occurred in a Team Foundation component. The information contained here should be made available to your site administrative staff.
Technical Information (for the administrative staff):
Date (UTC): 10/7/2006 9:25:17 AM
Machine: OTBPDC
Application Domain: TFSServerScheduler.exe
Assembly: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Common, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a; v2.0.50727
Process Details:
Process Name: TFSServerScheduler
Process Id: 2284
Thread Id: 2360
Account name: ODESSAPDC01\tfsservice

Detailed Message: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.TeamFoundationServerUnauthorizedException: TF30063: You are not authorized to access TF50309: You do not have sufficient permissions to perform this operation.. ---> System.Security.SecurityException: TF50309: You do not have sufficient permissions to perform this operation.
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.CheckAuthenticationProxy.CheckAuthentication()
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.TeamFoundationServer.Authenticate(Boolean useProvider, ICredentialsProvider provider)
The Zone of the assembly that failed was:
MyComputer
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.TeamFoundationServer.Authenticate(Boolean useProvider, ICredentialsProvider provider)
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.TeamFoundationServer.EnsureAuthenticated()
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server.Scheduler.TaskScheduler.GetRegistrationProxy(String serverName)
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server.Scheduler.TaskScheduler.LazyInit()

For more information, see Help and Support Center at

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Third event

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An unexpected condition has occurred in a Team Foundation component. The information contained here should be made available to your site administrative staff.
Technical Information (for the administrative staff):
Date (UTC): 10/7/2006 9:25:17 AM
Machine: OTBPDC
Application Domain: TFSServerScheduler.exe
Assembly: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Common, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a; v2.0.50727
Process Details:
Process Name: TFSServerScheduler
Process Id: 2284
Thread Id: 2360
Account name: ODESSAPDC01\tfsservice

Detailed Message: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.TeamFoundationServerUnauthorizedException: TF30063: You are not authorized to access TF50309: You do not have sufficient permissions to perform this operation.. ---> System.Security.SecurityException: TF50309: You do not have sufficient permissions to perform this operation.
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.CheckAuthenticationProxy.CheckAuthentication()
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.TeamFoundationServer.Authenticate(Boolean useProvider, ICredentialsProvider provider)
The Zone of the assembly that failed was:
MyComputer
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.TeamFoundationServer.Authenticate(Boolean useProvider, ICredentialsProvider provider)
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.TeamFoundationServer.EnsureAuthenticated()
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server.Scheduler.TaskScheduler.GetRegistrationProxy(String serverName)
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server.Scheduler.TaskScheduler.LazyInit()

For more information, see Help and Support Center at

An unexpected condition has occurred in a Team Foundation component. The information contained here should be made available to your site administrative staff.
Technical Information (for the administrative staff):
Date (UTC): 10/7/2006 9:25:07 AM
Machine: OTBPDC
Application Domain: TFSServerScheduler.exe
Assembly: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Common, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a; v2.0.50727
Process Details:
Process Name: TFSServerScheduler
Process Id: 2284
Thread Id: 2360
Account name: ODESSAPDC01\tfsservice

Detailed Message: TF50801: The initialization did not complete because there was no task list registered with the TFS Registration service, or an error prevented the TFS Registration service from providing the task list. Attempting to load the system task list from the latest log file.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at

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Fourth Event

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An unexpected condition has occurred in a Team Foundation component. The information contained here should be made available to your site administrative staff.
Technical Information (for the administrative staff):
Date (UTC): 10/7/2006 9:25:07 AM
Machine: OTBPDC
Application Domain: TFSServerScheduler.exe
Assembly: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Common, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a; v2.0.50727
Process Details:
Process Name: TFSServerScheduler
Process Id: 2284
Thread Id: 2360
Account name: ODESSAPDC01\tfsservice

Detailed Message: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.TeamFoundationServerUnauthorizedException: TF30063: You are not authorized to access TF50309: You do not have sufficient permissions to perform this operation.. ---> System.Security.SecurityException: TF50309: You do not have sufficient permissions to perform this operation.
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.CheckAuthenticationProxy.CheckAuthentication()
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.TeamFoundationServer.Authenticate(Boolean useProvider, ICredentialsProvider provider)
The Zone of the assembly that failed was:
MyComputer
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.TeamFoundationServer.Authenticate(Boolean useProvider, ICredentialsProvider provider)
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.TeamFoundationServer.EnsureAuthenticated()
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server.Scheduler.TaskScheduler.GetRegistrationProxy(String serverName)
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server.Scheduler.TaskScheduler.LazyInit()

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

It sounds like there are probably multiple problems with your restore. I'm not sure if I can resolve all of them, but heres a couple of questions.

1. Did you add TFS's Service and Reporting account to the new server's groups? I am assuming they are on the same domain and you have access to the same account (same name on a different domain is not the same)

2. Did you read through and follow the Report Server instructions very carefully when you went through the procedures? Did you remember the encryption key? http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms400729.aspx I remember going through and seeing a few gotchas that if you missed might explain the 1st problem you were having. Reread the steps on reconfiguring your report server and see if there might be something you missed http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252516.aspx