Fixing the Check-in policy failure error.

Hi all,

If you are one of the lucky few who get the annoying message saying something like “TFS policy failure when checking in” even when you have selected a work item and given appropriate comments(like “change”). I might have a fix for it.

I was able to fix it by installing the TFS power tools.

How to verify the issue?

1. From your Team Explorer, right click the “Paxit” node, choose “Team Project Settings” choose the “Source Control..” option.
2. Select the “Check-in Policy” tab, in the list of policies, select the “Change set Comments Policy”, you would notice an error message box to the effect of the policy implementing dll not being installed properly.

1. The message might ask you to register the dll correctly

Don’t try to fix any registry entry, just install the TFS power tools which installs the change set comments policy addin along with other useful tools.

Here is where you find the download for the power tools. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/tfs2008/bb980963.aspx

Good luck

-Yogesh