TFS 2010 team project portals - looking for Scrum

Question

I've successfully installed the process template for VS2010 Scrum on our TFS 2010. And I installed the dashboard on the server. Now, I want to create a new Site Collection in Sharepoint before we do our next project using Scrum. But when I go to create a whole new Site Collection, the only choices for Template Selection in Team Project Portals tab are the Agile and CMMI Dashboards. There is one more under Custom tab but that is VSTS_MSF_CMMI.

Should I be able to create a new Site Collection that identifies Scrum under the Template Selection?

If not, should I create the new Site Collection with the TFS2010 Agile Dashboard?

Answer 1

Not really sure what you really want to do here. But thougt I would give you some thoughts.

You do not need to create a Shrepoint site collection when creating a new Team Project Collection. When you create a new Team Collection in TFS Server Admin Console you get the Sharepoint and Reporting suff created for you.
However you will need to Import the Scrum template into the new Team Project Collection to be able to create projects using it. (Right-click on the Collection in Team Explorer, choose Team Project Collection Settings and Process Template Manager).

If you want to understand more about Team Project Portals this article might interest you:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff678492.aspx

Hope this helps

 

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Tomas Scott

Answer 2

Thank you for Tomas's kindly help.

Hi DevDells,

Tomas has posted good suggestion on your concern.

When we create a new Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 in Team Explorer 2010, we can access Scrum project portal via "Show Project Portal" feature.






We don't need to manually create the project portal ourselves.

If you cannot view Scrum project portal properly, it might be that TFS extension for WSS is not been installed well.

Could you run Stsadm -o enumsolutions to check whether Microsoft.TeamFoundation.SharePoint.Scrum.wsp is installed?
Stsadm.exe is under C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\bin\stsadm.exe.

If not, run Stsadm -o addsolution -filename "C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0\Project Portal\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.SharePoint.Scrum.wsp"

Then run Stsadm -o deploysolution -name Microsoft.TeamFoundation.SharePoint.Scrum.wsp -local -force.

You may have to run iisreset command to reset IIS.

Hope this helps! If you have any concern, please feel free to let me know.

Best regards,
Yichun Chen
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Answer 3

Thanks both of you for setting me straight. I believe that my Scrum install is completely functional now. There are some issues on the server I'm running due to old betas being uninstalled. I did fix the event sink problem yesterday so I have descriptions again for TFS errors. But honestly, I think we are going to need a complete reinstall on a fresh OS before our TFS 2010 install is solid.

I'm going to work more with the installed Scrum Team Project that I've created. I have already noted that the dashboard is functional and reports all seem to be there after I created it on the DefaultCollection. Just have to dive in now.

My confusion was related to the lack of choice in the Sharepoint Site Collection creation page. if you look at my first entry above, you can see that I expected to find a Scrum choice in the 'Template Selection' tab.

Not all of us are Sharepoint admins and I for one find some difficulty understanding the TFS 2010 server in relationship to Sharepoint some times. In many ways I wish I could run it standalone, but I understand that some functionality would be missing. And of course, I want the Reporting Services part running. A must have.

Answer 4

Did you ever get the Scrum Team Project Portal to show up in the list.

I've installed the collection, but it doesn't appear.

My TFS Sharepoint site is not functional and I can't get it working.

I've been on the phone with Microsoft for about 8 total hours so far attempting to solve this problem and still no solution.

I'm losing faith in Microsoft's ability to resolve my issue.

- Bruce

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Bruce

Answer 5

Hi there,

I have the exact same problem here and I have invested so many hours on this, it is ridiculous.  There is no way I can see the dashboards on my setup which, of course, makes all my managers and my colleagues pretty disapointed and angry, after we did take the time to do the full setup and follow up the Scrum process on TFS 2010 by the book !

I executed the same commands suggested by YiYun Chen on the server (I did the IISRESET at the end as well).  None of these commands gave any errors, and I see the Microsoft.TeamFoundation.SharePoint.Scrum.wsp listed when specifying enumsolutions but there are no dashboard anywhere !

I even tried to create another site collection in sharepoint (I verified in Central Administration that Sharepoint.Scrum feature appears as Active) to take advantage of the SCRUM 1.0 template. In the list of available site templates I do not see any Scrum listed on it, so I basically cannot create a brand new site with all the webparts ready for it.
I even deleted the Sharepoint site that I created first from my tfs site, and recreated it after doing the procedure listed above, but I get the exact same thing: no Scrum dashboards anywhere.

This is all so frustrating, and I have spent so many hours trying to make this work, it just does not make any sense since I have a single server where everything is in there (TFS 2010, SQL 2008 with reporting services, etc.). I even installed all the service packs and nothing changes. I used the standard installation (use the provided Sharepoint site, not even a different installation).

Is there anything else that I have to check ? any permissions somewhere ?
I wish the dashboards were a separate app. Plain simple, NO Sharepoint. Just a simple MVC application in order to reduce all these layers trying to make all this to work.

Please let me know what else I could check.
Thanks in advance

Javier