Not create new TF workspace when running build.

Robert Gunner

Created October 29, 2026 06:14

I am creating a new application build agent on a W11 Citrix VDA for a legacy application

When I run the build, it falls over when TC tries to create the TF workspace.

I've checked that there aren't any existing workspaces on the TF server.

I made sure I did a clean checkout.

I also cleaned out the caches

I cloned the project from the W10 VM and it works fine so I thought this would be easy.

Both a colleague and I are at a bit of a wits end.

Has anyone struck this one before? As I understand TC should create a new workspace every time a build runs.

Thanks in advance.

1 comment

Mark Whybird

Created October 29, 2026 06:54

Details of note:

1. the output you see there is from a command line version of getting the source code (it's a legacy app and various funky things need to happen to the workspace later in the build, so this is necessary.)

"%TF%" workspaces /collection:%tfsRootUrl%
"%TF%" get "%branchDirectory%" /recursive /overwrite

2. Attempting to do a normal TC agent-side checkout gives strange Java errors to do with something called "Aternity":

Failed to perform checkout on agent: Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -agentpath:"C:\WINDOWS\system32\Aternity\Java\JavaHookLoader.dll"="C:\ProgramData\Aternity\hooks"

3. A server-side checkout DOES work (but we can't use it; see point 1.)

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