TFS Powertools 2010 Shell Integration with Windows Explorer - Attempts to connect to server fails - tfs-power-tools

We have Team Foundation Server 2010 installed on a domain server with Visual Studio 2010 installed on the client side connected to the domain. All works well.
We then installed TFS Powertools 2010 so that we could use the TFS facilities integrated with Windows Explorer. This doesn't seem to work - the Team Foundation Server sub menu which is present in the context menu has only one entry - "Reconnect to server". When this is selected an error is returned saying "Unable to connect to Team Foundation Server".
I would have expected a dialogue box requesting credentials to be input but this does not happen. Does anyone know where these credentials are stored or some other work around? I've seen similar questions but no definitive answer.
Thanks in advance

You can store the credentials in the Windows Credentials Manager (Windows 7). You can find that in the control panel.

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Tried everything. Deploying same type of web project (Net.Core 1.1) with VS2015 at the very same location using exactly same parameters works without any problems.
Is there any known issue with release RC.4+26206?
This what my server log says:
IISWMSVC_AUTHORIZATION_SERVER_NOT_ALLOWED
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Ok... Found a solution. Same reason as documented here: .net core web deploy requires admin permissions, so VS2017 requires right now a windows account of group Administrators to publish net core projects.
Hopefully this will be fixed soon.
Note: The official VS 2017 RTW still has this bug.

Configuring TFS - Advanced wizard

Perhaps this was asked before but I can't find a whole lot on this, so I would appreciate some help.
Our architecture is as follows: Win 7 desktop on a domain with VS 2010. MS Sql server R2 on Win Server 2008 R2 Ent; SharePoint 2007 on Win 2003; SharePoint 2010 on Win 2008 R2 Ent; Visual Sourcesafe on yet another separate Win Server 2008 R2 Ent server. On this server I have just installed TFS and was running Advanced Config Wizard.
As I'm new to TFS all my selected options are based on intuition and perhaps common sense but Reporting Services and SharePoint aren't working. With reporting services after I add my sql server name (and I've tried IP address and dns name) neither the Report Server URL nor Report Manager URL is populated. (Note: What do I need reporting services for anyway?)
So I've opted not to use reporting services, which as I said, I don't know what is the benefit of it.
Next, in the SharePoint configuration, I wanted to use the existing SharePoint farm which is installed on a separate servers. Testing the Site and Administration URLs would throw an error: "The following site could not be accessed. ... Either ... not installed the Team Foundation Server Extensions, or Firewall... "
I suspect it is not the firewall so then the TFS Extensions. Having search that topic as well seems to point back to the TFS's configuration, so I'm a completely at a loss.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Risho
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Edited: I was looking at this article http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dd631915.aspx but I don't have the options listed in the step-by-step solution. TFS Admin Console has this: Top tear - server name, below is Application Tear then Proxy Server, build Configuration and Logs. Expanding Application Tear shows Team Project Collections, SharePoint Web Applications, Reporting, and Lab Management.
You have to configure the SharePoint extensions on each SharePoint machine you wish to connect to TFS. Install TFS on whichever SharePoint machine (or both, if you plan to use both). In the configuration wizard, you should have the option to configure SharePoint Extensions. Once done, you should be able to re-run the readiness checks in the Advanced Wizard on your Application Tier machine.

Uninstall and reinstall SharePoint Foundation and no Standalone Option

I have a sharepoint Server that I uninstalled. (I just did it through add-remove programs and uninstall)
Then when I tried to re-install Sharepoint foundations 2010 (the same version I uninstalled) it would seem to work correclty, but it would not give me an option for Stand Alone. Only giving me an option for Existing Web Farm or New Web Farm.
I have tried to delete the instances of SQL Server (Sharepoint) but still getting this problem.
I have Windows 2010 Server (same as Windows 2008 R2)
There is no "Stand Alone" option. I just installed a fresh SharePoint 2010 and only had the options for "Existing Server Farm" or "New Server Farm". As explained in the same dialog: Go for "New Server Farm" when you are installing it on a single server (stand alone).

Not able to browse the central admin after installing sharepoint 2010 on windows 7

i sucussfully installed sharepoint 2010. configuration also went succesfully. after that when i open central administration it is giving 500 error like The website cannot display the page.
please anyone can help me in this
A couple of suggestions:
See if any relevant Windows services on your Windows 7 box have been disabled or not restarted properly.
The Central Admin site may be failing as SQL is not accessible.
Also verify the Central Admin site is ok in IIS Manager: check that the application pool or site itself has not stopped.
By default, some of the authentication providers may not be installed in Windows 7 machine (inside IIS). You can check the list of authentication providers by double click on the central administration site in IIS

Report Server not available after Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 install

We installed SP1 on our Team Foundation Server 2008 server. Everything seems fine after the install, except there is a red X on the Reports folder in the Team Explorer in Visual Studio. If we attempt to access the Reporting Services web site, we get a message that says that the "report server is unavailable". There were no errors during the installation.
The Reporting Services service started up fine and left no errors in the event log. We looked at the Reporting Services Configuration Tool and everything shows as OK. We tried restarting the RS service and rebooting the machine. Again, no errors but still no report availability.
The SQL Server instance where our data lives is up and running fine and we can query the OLAP cube and the relational side with no problem. All of our developer machines are already at VSTS 2008 SP1. Visual Studio is not installed on the server.
We looked at the logs files in the RS folder and the only errors that show are the ones that we get when we try to access the web site from IE, but that don't seem to contain any more info about the root cause.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'll post any updates on other things we try here.
UPDATE: There is a login error showing up the ReportServer(timestamp).log file. The login on the reporting services service is not the login that is showing up in this error, so I'm not yet sure what process is actually trying to make the connection to the db.
We got this resolved. It appears that the TFS 2008 SP1 install process decided to change the identity setting of application pool for the Reporting Services web site. To resolve we needed to:
Open Internet Information Server Manager
Go into Application Pools
Right click on the Reporting Services application pool
Click on the Identity tab
Change the account from NetworkService to our TFS domain account
Edit the rsreportserver.config located in "\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\Reporting
Change the "NT Authority\NetworkService" to "OurDomain\TFSDomainAccount"
Restart IIS
Hope this saves someone else some time.
Check the IIS application pools. My feeling is that reporting services doesn't play nice with other web applications (usually I've fixed this in the past by setting a seperate pool for the other applications).