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TFS: "Unable to connect to the Windows SharePoint Services"

Whew. I'm finally past this troublesome TFS project creation error.

At first in my research, I discovered TFS is (somewhere...RegProxyFileCache.xml I think) configured to look for WSS (Sharepoint) Admin at port 17012. Some folks identified a second install of WSS leads to the incorrect port for WSS...thus causing a TFS project creation error. This was not the case for me.

Finally, upon highly scrutinizing the project creation log file, I found an inner, inner, inner exception reading:
Exception Message: The request failed with HTTP status 403: Forbidden.
Checking IIS on the TFS instance for the "Sharepoint Central Administration" site, I opened the Directory Security tab. Sure enough, the "IP address and domain name restrictions" option was set to default deny and only granted to localhost (127.0.0.1). Ugh. Security. ;-)

To resolve, I simply set the option to default grant. Project creation successful! I hope this helps someone avoid this issue.

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Anonymous said…
Don't forget to check whether Windows Firewall isn't blocking the WSS port!!
Friday, September 18, 2009 6:38:00 AM
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