Archive for November, 2013
I recently encountered an issue with email alerts in Team Foundation Server 2012. Unfortunately the process to enable email logging is a little more in-depth than it should be and I’ll cover that process here.
1. First open a command prompt on the TFS application server and navigate to the “tools” directory under your TFS install directory. Then run the following command:
tfsconfig configuremail /Enabled:True |
2. Open PowerShell on the TFS application server and run the following commands to increase the log level from 0 to 2:
# Load client OM assembly. [Reflection.Assembly]::Load("Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a"); $collectionBaseUrl = "http://YOURTFSSERVER:8080/tfs/YOURCOLLECTION/"; $tfs = [Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.TeamFoundationServerFactory]::GetServer($collectionBaseUrl); $collectionHive = $tfs.GetService([Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Client.ITeamFoundationRegistry]); # Set the setting in the collection hive. $collectionHive.SetValue("/Service/Integration/Settings/NotificationJobLogLevel", "2"); |
3. Login to the SQL server and run the following query against the TFS_Configuration database:
SELECT TOP 10 DATEADD(HOUR, -7, StartTime) AS StartTimePDT, RESULT, ResultMessage FROM [Tfs_Configuration].[dbo].[tbl_JobHistory] WHERE JobId = 'A4804DCF-4BB6-4109-B61C-E59C2E8A9FF7' AND RESULT <> 0 ORDER BY StartTime DESC |
4. You will now see a detailed error under the “ResultMessage” column. In my case the following part of the error pointed me in the right direction:
Exception: System.Net.Mail.SmtpException: Mailbox unavailable. The server response was: 5.7.1 Client does not have permissions to send as this sender
5. To clear this specific issue I needed to allow SMTP relay on our Exchange server for the TFS application servers IP. Generally this isn’t needed when sending to internal addresses but I think the way TFS was pulling the email addresses from AD had something to do with it.
6. After you are done troubleshooting remember to set the logging level to 0 in PowerShell:
# Set the setting in the collection hive. $collectionHive.SetValue("/Service/Integration/Settings/NotificationJobLogLevel", "0"); |