I am doing a pilot to see if it makes sense to migrate off of our Source Off Site system over to Team Foundation Server. I set up the TFS server without any problems and then attempted to migrate over the VSS that was backing Source Off Site. That was when I found out that nobody knows what the admin password for VSS is. We have the admin password for Source Off Site but it is apparently not the same as VSS. I tried all the "usual suspects" but none of the standard passwords worked. I did a live search and came up with an article at http://www.interdimension.org/en/it/vss_lost_admin_password.htm that explains how to use a hex editor to modify the um.dat file to reset the password. I went out to downloads.com and grabbed a free hex editor and entered the codes. The first time I fired up VSS Administration tool I got an error that um.dat was corrupted. I looked again and I had mis-typed one character. After that I was able to start the import. The next problem I ran into was an error from Team Foundation Server. The message was "TF60022: Unable to connect to Microsoft SQL Server". Again Live Search came to my rescue. I found an article at http://blogs.msdn.com/ankur/archive/2005/09/27/474318.aspx from the guy who wrote the tool. I added in the <SQL Server ... /> element to my configuration file and the import started up.