Error when running the TFS Best Practices Analyzer with an account containing a dollar ($) sign
I recently tried to run the TFS BPA using an account containing a dollar ($) sign. It was something like "user$name". I ended up with a rather strange error message looking like the following: Cannot validate the URL provided The scan was generated using the corrected URL "%TFSServerURLValidated%". A quick look at the "Other reports" section of the scan results, I found that the tool was trying to find files in the following directory: c:\Users\ user \AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\TfsBpa\[...] The important part is highlighted. It seems that some of the PowerShell scripts are analyzing the account name as the literal user followed by a variable named $name , instead of interpreting the whole account name as a literal. As I didn't want to go through the various PS scripts in the BPA installation directory, I decided to take the lazy approach. I created a symbolic link C:\Users\user pointing to C:\Users\user$name\ using the following c...