HP ALM Synchronizer TFS 2010 mapping workitem - alm

What does this error means...??
EndpointParams: Endpoint params check failed. Reason: Folder Work Item verification failed. Verify that the folder work item, name field and description field are configured correctly in the adapter's dat folder.
Any idea..

In HP ALM Synchronizer, in the Advanced tab of the configuration of the link you should be able to set endpoint params. Check that you have set a value for all params.
Refer to page 75 of HP ALM Synchronizer User Guide

Thank you for using HP ALM Synchronizer.
To work with TFS and ALM at requirement sync, sometimes you want copy the hierarchy structure to another endpoint. So we provided folder sync on TFS adapter.
To use this feature, we need understand we will recognize a work item in TFS as folders in ALM. For example, you can make work item "Group" as folders.
Edit HP ALM Synchronizer\adapters\dat\TFS\adapter.properties
Uncomment folder items, specify which work time you want to map to folder:
tfs.adapter.folder.work.item=Group
Specify which attribute of this work item you want to map to ALM folder name and description:
tfs.adapter.folder.field.name=Title
tfs.adapter.folder.field.description=Description
And restart the service.
Then we also need put all requirements you want to sync under "Group" in TFS (by using linking function in TFS).
Finally your groups in TFS will become folder in ALM and all sub items will keep the hierarchy structure in ALM.
Hope this helpful.

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I have looked at other sources and they said to find the "Sync" option, however I was unable to find this option. How should I go about doing this?
Edit: This is a shared folder that has been shared to me by another person in the organization, and can be accessed by multiple people
Had to read your post a few time but the answer is in the Edit section. The folder was shared to you by another user in the organization. This is most likely the reason why the sync option is not available. I'm a 365 admin in my organization and would make sure that users could not share SharePoint Doc Lib with other users and defiantly not be able to sync the library if the user could share a folder. This would be down to GDPR or Organization policy in place plus SharePoint Libraries will/should have user access in place. Being able to receive a share link from another user to me would mean that there is an issue with access to the SharePoint Document Libraries security/access settings.
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Migrating User Stories From One TFS Server To Another In Excel

I want to pull a set of user stories from a SOURCE TFS instance and put them into a TARGET TFS instance using Excel. I know other people have done this!
However, once I download the stories into Excel, I cannot rebind the spreadsheet to the TARGET TFS instance. I keep getting the following:
"The reconnect operation failed because the team project collection
you selected does not host the team project the document references."
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Q: How do I Migrate User Stories From One TFS Server To Another In Excel?
This should be easy!
You need to create another excel sheet with the same columns that is bound to the new TFS server.
Then just copy and paste between them.
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https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bryang/2011/09/07/copying-tfs-work-items/

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I'm completely new to Sharepoint so keep that in mind when answering or assuming things.
Anyways, we have a CRM 2015 Online Update 1 and Sharepoint Online and those are integrated (not by me). Now when an end-user goes to Account -> Documents the CRM will automatically ask if the user wants to create a folder to Sharepoint. That's fine, but naming convention seems to be "AccountName_AccountGuid". We would like to change that to "AccountName_OurOwnID" where OurOwnID is a custom field in CRM that is unique for every account.
So my question is how would one do this?
EDIT: All I can think of now is to create a plugin that'll be launched when ever a sharepointdocumentlocation entity is created and basically create a new folder with wanted name and then delete the original folder in Sharepoint and then connect the new folder with sharepointdocumentlocation.
Sub-question: Is there a way to tell CRM to stop asking if the user wants to create a new folder? In my case it's unwanted feature but since it is there at least we should make sure that names of the folders will be ok.
The folder name with the guid is default behavior which cannot be altered.
If you want to develop a plugin, look at this post: https://crmconsultancy.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/crm-2011-integration-with-sharepoint-custom-document-management/
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Add the SharePoint.Client assembly with ILMerge. Officialy this is not supported.
Or use the rest endpoint of SharePoint. This is an interesting post to read: https://bingsoft.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/crm-online-to-sharepoint-online-integration-using-rest-and-adfs/

How to create folders base on external datasource in SharePoint 2010?

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Basically I would like to pull list of Clients and related assets from external system into sharepoint 2010.
Then I would like to associate documents with each asset. My first intention is to create a list of folders where each folder would be named respectively.
Tell me, if I am going in the wrong direction.
You can open your document library in explorer view and easly copy your content from external sorce to document liabrary, as windows explorer.
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http://msmvps.com/blogs/shane/archive/2006/01/12/80843.aspx

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I'm in the process of moving a complete sharepoint install to a different server.
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All the best
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A .doc file for moving all of the SharePoint databases has been published here. Microsoft will soon have an updated procedure for this published on TechNet, according to the To The SharePoint blog.
Then to cover off any file system changes, I would set up a clean install of SharePoint (if you didn't need to already by following the document mentioned above) and do a file comparison between your source and destination SharePoint application servers. I usually use WinMerge as its free but Beyond Compare is also good. Also check any custom solutions are deployed on your destination server.
By ensuring your databases are moved correctly and all of your files are in place you should be OK. Make sure you test every custom component on your destination server before erasing the source databases and files (even better, archive the source).
Yes, create a new SSP and move the applications.
How to on migration of applications here
For moving the SSP to a new farm
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