tfpt unable to determine the workspace

Question

I am trying to unshelve a shelveset from one Workspace to another. Both on visual studio online. Running such a command tfpt unshelve /migrate /source:"randomname.visualstudio.com\DefaultCollection\Project\Branch1" /target:"randomname.visualstudio.com\DefaultCollection\Project\Branch2" "random_shelveset_name" would result the exception Unable to determin the workspace

The command looks exactly as have been typed in the commandline (the structure of it).

Answer 1

You need to run tf.exe from the command line and run the command:

tf workspaces /s:serverURL

serverUR being your server information

I had the same issue and had trouble running tf.exe by double-clicking or calling the command without starting tf.exe first