TFS time info

TFS time info

• orbit

  Sure Buck!
  
  We have an amazing development environment, some developers sit in US and some others in India. 
  
  We have the server(s) in India, we need to define a custom policy that prevents using from checking-in files for a specific time period (ideally be based on the TFS time).
  
  
  
  

• mandoman2

  Well, if you want to prevent folks from checking in from say 2:00 am to 4:00 am server time, one really simple way to guarantee that is enforced is to set up a windows task on the application tier to remove the checkin permission from the appropriate group at 2:00 am and then restore it at 4:00 am.  You could run "tf permission" to do that.
  
  Buck
  
  

• nron

  But, our requirement is not to block checkin completely but restrict it based on some rules as similar to other policies. The user should still have the option of overriding the policy!
  
  

• Jose Fuentes

  Jeps, I have to admit that I'm really curious to know more about what you are trying to do.  Would share the details
  
  Buck

  
  
  

• JoyK

  As Alex said, this was not really a capability we anticipated people needing.  Here are some approaches you can look at to get the info though.
  
  Try the web method at:
  
  http://yourserver:8080/versioncontrol/v1.0/administration.asmx/QueryServerInformation
  
  This will return the server start time and it's uptime.  By adding them together you can get what it believes is the current time.
  
  The other possibility (although probably harder) would be to access:
  
  http://yourserver:8080/versioncontrol/v1.0/administration.asmx/QueryServerRequests
  
  This will return a list of requests currently being processed.  The one with the most recent start time is going to be the server's current time within a few milliseconds (because your QueryServerRequests call will be processed VERY fast).
  
  Of course you can generate webservice proxies to make calling these easier.
  

• integrators

  You cannot do that from the object model - getting the exact server time would require roundtrip to the server, which we usually want to avoid - we usually do that for querying, etc.
  
  I would like to know more why you need to do that - could you please explain your scenario
  
  Thanks,
  Alex

  
  

• softwarejaeger

  Hi Alex,
  
  I'm trying to build a custom check in policy. This needs the server time info so that I can base my check-in on the server time instead of the local machine time.
  (for e.g. I allow check-in of a file only if a specific time has elapsed)
  
  
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