TFS 2013 Build: Which process retrieves the build process template?

Question

I'm currently trying to set up a build machine for continuous integration.

Our TFS project collection resides on one machine (TFSServer), while we've installed the build service, controller and agents on a different machine (TFSBuild).

When I queue a build, I get the following error:

TF215097: An error occurred while initializing a build for build definition
Exception Message: One or more errors occurred. (type AggregateException)
Exception Stack Trace:    at System.Threading.Tasks.Task`1.GetResultCore(Boolean waitCompletionNotification)
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client.FileContainerHelper.GetFile(TfsTeamProjectCollection projectCollection, String itemPath, Stream outputStream)
...

This seems to happen when the controller? tries to retrieve the build process template from the TFS server.

The inner exception is the following:

Exception Message: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:8080 (type SocketException)
...

This is where I get confused, because a connection to localhost was attempted. I would've expected that the call be made to TFSServer instead.

Am I misunderstanding something? Or should I look in a different direction to solve my issue?

Edit: I have this feeling that the problem is caused because I had initially installed TFS Server on the build machine, and that some cached value points to the localhost server which used to exist, but not anymore...

Edit 2: I was not able to set up a controller on the build machine, for some reason it keeps looking for the build process template locally instead of the TFS server. So instead, I set up the controller on the TFS server, and the agents on the build machine and it seems to work fine.

Jehan33 Jehan33 · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-06T21:52:01

Your build service might be still pointing to previous TFS server URL which was installed on the same build server. You can check this setting by launching TFS Administration Console and clicking Build configuration, then update it to point to the Team Project Collection configured on another box.

TFS 2013 Build: Which process retrieves the build process template?

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