Anith Gopal

If you are testing TFS 2010 Beta1 you may hit the following error during upgrade: TF50363: The following display name is not valid. This is due to a known bug in our upgrade scripts where in the Version Control db (TfsVersionControl) tbl_Identity table there exists one or more rows where the DisplayName field contains data that is not in the expected format of domainusername .   If you hit this error, the workaround is to update the row and prefix the existing value with a dummy domain name like ‘domain’. You can query the tbl_Identity table to see if you have any rows where this is the case by running: use TfsVersionControl go SELECT * FROM tbl_Identity WHERE DisplayName NOT LIKE ( ” )   If the query returns rows, then you can run the following to prefix ‘domain’ to the field and re-run the upgrade.  Note you’ll have to do after restoring the TFS 2008 dbs and before re-running the upgrade (see below) UPDATE tbl_Identity SET DisplayName = ‘domain’ + DisplayName WHERE DisplayName NOT LIKE ( ” )     To restart upgrade you will need “start over” by following these high level steps: 1

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TFS 2010 Beta1 – Upgrade may fail with TF50363: The following display name is not valid.