Alain de Klerk – Alain's SharePoint Bloggings

A colleague of mine, who is in charge of the Team Foundation Server, couldn’t create new Team Projects anymore using Visual Studio Team explorer. He received an error message:

Server was unable to process request. —> Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800700005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))

As a SharePoint consultant I immediately fired up the ULS viewer. The only thing worth mentioning in the logs was a verbose entry:

PermissionMask check failed. asking for 0x08000000, have 0x00000000

I checked, and double checked all SharePoint permissions and the TFS permissions but they were al configured as they should. After a while I noticed the the SharePoint content databases were not updated since the installation of SP1. The page Central Administration page ‘Review database status’ (http://CA/_admin/DatabaseStatus.aspx) mentions a warning that the content database should be updated.

After running the ‘SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard’ the error disappeared and we were able to create new Team Projects again.