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Reports Section in TFS 2008 Project portal doesn't show up


Symptoms

When you right click any of the project node in the Team Explorer 2008 and choose "Show Project Portal", you see the reporting page not being shown(the remaining work item part) and see error message "page not found" 404

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Cause

This happens when we have configured reporting services as named instance but in the reports registry key the urls are still set as default instance as provided below:

http://servername/reports

http://servername/reportserver

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Resolution

In order to resolve this issue, go to the following registry key by using registry edit (regedit.exe) on the TFS 2008 Application Tier server by following the steps provided below and change the urls to the named instance url for reporting services

1. Go to start->run and type regedit

2. In the registry go to the following value

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\TeamFoundation\ReportServer\80\Sites

and change the values of the registry keys BaseReportsUrl and ReportsService from http://servername/reports and http://servername/reportsserver to http://servername/reports_intancename and http://servername/reportserver_instancename respectively

 

 

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Article Info
Article ID : 2022559
Revision : 1
Created on : 1/8/2017
Published on : 8/3/2010
Exists online : False
Views : 192