TeamProject Creation error - Exception from HRESULT: 0x8001010A (RPC_E_SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER) at EnvDTE80.DTE2.get_DTE()

Question

Hi

We are facing the below error while creating the Team Project using the TFS Power tools.

Unexpected error occurred.
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x8001010A): The message filter indicated that the application is busy. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8001010A (RPC_E_SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER))
   at EnvDTE80.DTE2.get_DTE()
   at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerTools.CommandLine.TeamProjectCreator.CreateProject()

Somewhere in this forum i read that the order of installation will be the cause. We have installed TFS components in the following order.

1. TFS 2010

2. Visual studio 2010 SP1

3. Team Explorer 2010.

We have also installed the following hotfixes for the Team Explorer.

1. KB2580221

2. KB2643415

Any help is much appreciated.

Regards,

Balaji

Answer 1

Hi Balaji,

If you are running Visual Studio 2010, you don't need to do the install of Team Explorer like you did with VS 2008 -- unless you are using a verison of VS that cannot connect to TFS.

The error that you are getting is a very generic one, but it appears to be tied to a connection or timeout issue with the TFS services.  Normally I would simply restart the TFS services and then look for things in the event log or IIS logs. As a more remote possibility, there could be a permissions problem with the accoounts that you are using as service accounts to run TFS.  Depending on your install scenario, there are different requirements for machine access, local admin rights, and the like.  Missing one of these could cause similar issues.

Best of luck,

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Ryan Hanisco, PMP, PMI-ACP
MCSE, MCTS:TFS 2010, SQL 2005
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Answer 2

Hi Ryan

Thanks for the reply.  I missed to mention that this particular error is not consistent. 2 Out of 5 Team project creation fails. We have tried the following workarounds but the error is still reported.

1. We have tried restarting the TFS services,

2. killing the DevEnv process before starting the Project creation, so as to make sure that there are no stray Devenv process.

Regards,

Balaji

Answer 3

Hi Balaji, 

Thanks for your post.

As far as I know, the KB2580221 is for TFS 2010 SP1, have you installed the TFS 2010 SP1 for your TFS 2010? If not, please uninstall the KB2580221 and KB2643415, then install the TFS 2010 SP1 for your TFS Server.

After installed TFS 2010 SP1, try to create Team Project again.   

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John Qiao [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 4

Are all the projects using the same process template?  If there are conflicts in the templates, new projects with the conflicting template will fail.  Installing SP1 will let the process ignore the error, but that can impact the data available in the warehouse.

Usually there is a lot more in the failed project creation message/ log.  Can you post the whole thing?

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Ryan Hanisco, PMP, PMI-ACP
MCSE, MCTS:TFS 2010, SQL 2005
techsterity.wordpress.com