TFS Admin Console missing Build Configuration Node

Question

I've been forced to reinstall the TFS build service on one of our build machines, and after I uninstalled and reinstalled, the Build Configuration node does not get loaded in the Team Foundation Server Administrative Console. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling a couple of times without success. The build service is running fine, with 2 agents.

It's TFS2010.

Any thoughts?

Answer 1

A developer from TFS Admin & Ops team suggested the following:

Any chance the TFS Power Tools were installed on that box? There was a problem with the backup power tool that caused some nodes not to show up. If that’s the case, under HKLM\Software\Microsoft\TeamFoundationServer\10.0\Plugins there will probably be two nodes – one for backup and one for TeamBuild – removing the backup plug-in node would probably resolve the problem. You could also check the admin log to see if there are exceptions in there, and perhaps export the TFS registry key above.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

In my case build services were not installed at all on the machine with TFS app tier and build controller configuration was available from the separate build server.