Scrum for Team System Template and Sharepoint problems

After upgrading a TFS from 2008 to 2010 at one of my clients, the default.aspx in the SharePoint portal for every TFS site that was using the Scrum for Team System template failed to load. Instead I got a 404 error. I noticed that the problem only occurred for the earliest projects which were created using the 1.2 version of the template. Projects created with the 2.x version kept working.

So I took a look in the log at: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\LOGS. Between all the information I found the following error message:

Cannot get ghost document: 1033\SCRUM\default.aspx
Failed to find <ListTemplate> tag corresponding to ID "104", tried both onet.xml for site definition ID "10719" language "1033" and global site definition. Operation failed.
Failed to determine the setup path of the list schema for list template 104.

The issue shows itself existing SFTS 1.2 projects showing a 404 error when navigating to the root of the Team Portal. This has been caused by the removal of files required for the WSS template. I found the following blog that describes the steps to fix the problem: http://consultingblogs.emc.com/sfts/archive/2008/04/28/sharepoint-fix-for-scrum-for-team-system-2-1-upgrades.aspx

However after executing the steps mentioned in the blog post, the sites still failed to load. I restored the backup files again and tried another solution. I browsed directly to the configuration pages by adding ‘_layouts/settings.aspx’ to the sites url. There I choose to reset the style by clicking the Reset to site definition option. Afterwards I was finally able to load the sites(although the layout was really messed up).

DevToys–A swiss army knife for developers

As a developer there are a lot of small tasks you need to do as part of your coding, debugging and testing activities. DevToys is an offline windows app that tries to help you with these tasks. Instead of using different websites you get a fully offline experience offering help for a large list of tasks. Many tools are available. Here is the current list: Converters JSON <> YAML Timestamp Number Base Cron Parser Encoders / Decoders HTML URL Base64 Text & Image GZip JWT Decoder Formatters JSON SQL XML Generators Hash (MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512) UUID 1 and 4 Lorem Ipsum Checksum Text Escape / Unescape Inspector & Case Converter Regex Tester Text Comparer XML Validator Markdown Preview Graphic Color B

Help! I accidently enabled HSTS–on localhost

I ran into an issue after accidently enabling HSTS for a website on localhost. This was not an issue for the original website that was running in IIS and had a certificate configured. But when I tried to run an Angular app a little bit later on http://localhost:4200 the browser redirected me immediately to https://localhost . Whoops! That was not what I wanted in this case. To fix it, you need to go the network settings of your browser, there are available at: chrome://net-internals/#hsts edge://net-internals/#hsts brave://net-internals/#hsts Enter ‘localhost’ in the domain textbox under the Delete domain security policies section and hit Delete . That should do the trick…

Azure DevOps/ GitHub emoji

I’m really bad at remembering emoji’s. So here is cheat sheet with all emoji’s that can be used in tools that support the github emoji markdown markup: All credits go to rcaviers who created this list.

The art of simplicity

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