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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook
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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

by Tarun Arora
January 2016
Intermediate to advanced
340 pages
7h 53m
English
Packt Publishing
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Deleting Work Items in TFS permanently

Work Items are used for capturing, planning, and tracking work in TFS. The History tab in a Work Item provides a full audit trail of the changes done to that Work Item. It is not uncommon to create a Work Item that you later decide is not needed. A Work Item can be excluded from the backlog by changing the Work Item state to Removed; however, the Work Item isn't deleted. As it stands today, there is no provision to permanently delete a Work Item from the user interface. In this recipe, you'll learn how to use the witadmin command line utility to permanently delete a Work Item and all history associated to it from TFS.

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Removing Work Items using the witadmin command permanently removes the Work Items from ...

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ISBN: 9781784391058