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Dynamics AX 2012 - Visual Studio Team Services Custom Work Item Fields Break Version Control (Error TF237121)

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W e've been using Visual Studio Team Services  (VSO) on several projects as or project management and version control solutions for Dynamics AX successfully for several years.  Recently though, AX occasionally presents us with one of these gems when logging into the client: "TF237121: Cannot complete the operation. An unexpected error occurred." and "Failed to update metadata cache. (Object Model)". You may have seen this error before.  Generally, from my experience, this coincides with an update that Microsoft has pushed to VSO. The fix is generally quite simple:  Navigate to C:\Users\[Your User]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation\3.0\Cache and delete all the files in that directory.  You may see several versions; 3.0 is the version AX 2012 R3 uses. Upon clearing the cache and restarting the AX client, the issue goes away and you can happily version control again. However, a few days ago, this fix stopped working for us.  No matter how much I