TFS 2008 SP1 Upgrade Part 2 – Error TF30059: Fatal error while initializing web service from server

The night after my first failed upgrade I kicked off another attempt.
This time I was to install Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008 before installing the service pack for Team Foundation Server. A few problems I came across:

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TFS 2008 SP1 Upgrade – The server returned content type , which is not supported

It’s 1AM, you’ve just completed a TFS 2008 upgrade to SP 1 and for a test you just performed a ‘Get Latest’ on a project tree.

Error!

‘The server returned content type , which is not supported’

Well, that doesn’t sound good. Skim reading TFSInstall-SP1-RTM-v080908.chm shows nothing about this. Just before pressing the panic button you do one last thing. Google it.

Thankfully I came across a post to a problem which is both similar and different on the MSDN Fourms.

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