As many of you will already know, there were quite a number of reports of issues when installing the TFS Service Pack 1 update. I personally had a number of issues on client sites with one requiring a restore of backup when I tried to install the service pack. Much of the problem centred around issues to do with the quiescence patch that you needed to apply to your TFS server prior to installing the service pack.

According to Brian Harry’s blog post, the following things have been fixed in the updated Quiescing GDR;

·         TFS SP1 and Hotfixes fails to install on a SQL Clustered Data Tier.

·         TFS SP1 and Hotfixes may fail to install due to issues connecting to the TFS databases.

·         TFS Databases may be left in Single-User mode after SP1 or Hotfix installation failure.

To find out more, read Brian’s post on “Updated Quiescing patch released” and then download the updated patch here