The Work Items node has a Red x

The Work Items node has a Red x and does not display any work items. The Documents and Reports nodes appear as they should and expand to show their individual items

This from Team Explorer on a host machine linked to TFS in a VPC image on the same physical box.

From Team Explorer within the same VPC image there is no issue all nodes appear normally.


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The Work Items node has a Red x

  • Mike Wachal

    I have the same problem, but on normal computers. It appeared after adding a new computer to domain and a new user to TFS , reports and sharepoint. The new user has the red X on the Workitems node.

    Everything else is ok.



  • zkarolyi

    The OS in the VPC was configured in Workgroup mode.

    The desktop and the VPC were in the same domain.

    However it was a resolution issue.

    The Red X fix was to add the IP address and machine name:

    xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx machineName workgroupName\machineName

    to the accessing machine's Hosts file located at:

    c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts


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