Installing 2008 Team Foundation Server

I was tasked to install Team foundation server 2008 on a server machine so i thought that I should jot down bit by bit my progress in this endeavor for future references. So started out with the installation documention and pre-requisites.

Install MS SQL Server 2005 Standard or Enterprise

Download and install SQL 2005 service pack 2
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=d07219b2-1e23-49c8-8f0c-63fa18f26d3a&displaylang=en

Downloaded KB925673 patch for MSXML 6.0 parser (You won't be needing this if you updated the SQL with patch SP2)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fd513435-fa6d-407c-bedc-5fd03e5b7d6c&DisplayLang=en

Wizard walkthrough:
1. run setup command

2. You may want to read the installation guide and I suggest you do so before proceeding with the actual installation.

Choose Team foundation server and click install.



3. You can choose to send information to microsoft and click next to continue.

4. Tick and agree with the lincense terms and click next.


5. Confirm the destination folder and click next.

6. Select SQL database server and click next.

7. Processing system health check.

8. Choose service account. I selected the default system account and clicked next.

9. Select a different account for your reporting services and click next.

10. You can either install a new or redirect to an existing sharepoint services and click next.

11. Specify account for sharepoint services and click next

13. You can enable the alert setting now or later.

14. Team foundation is now ready to install. click install.

15. Installing components status...

16. Setup completed successfully!

I hope you'll find this topic significant to your solutions.

Can not add the user because a user with that name already exists

Problem:
Can not add the user because a user with that name already exists

Solution:
http://ServerName/_layouts/1033/Siteusrs.aspx Note The Manage Site Collection Users page is not revealed in the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 user interface. You have to manually connect to the page.
Click to select the check box that is next to the name of the user who you want to remove, and then click Remove Selected Users.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893696

MOSS 2007: Service unvailable error when accessing Sharepoint 3.0 Central Administration

Problem:
Error
Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {3D42CCB1-4665-4620-92A3-478F47389230} failed due to the following error: 8007042d.

Solution:
1. Type on run command: secpol.msc
2. On Security Setting > Local policies > User rights assignments
3. Look for object titled "Log on as service" and click it.
4. Add user or group that should have access for the services in sharepoint.