TFS Integration Platform Tool - Work Item Tags are lost

Hi Guys,
Scenario 1:
We have used TFS Integration Platform to do a one time one way sync from TFS 2012 to TFS 2013 for workitems. We see that the
workitem tags are lost on the target TFS.
Scenario 2:
Another scenario we tested was a 2 way work items sync
between 2 TFS 2013 servers. Work items get synced but the
workitem tags do not get synced.
Is this a known issue and limitation of the tool?

Hi Nachiket,
For TFS integration tools, there are a few limitations. You can check the limitations section in this
page for more information. Labels cannot be migrated by using TFS integration tools.
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Hi Charles,
I have been doing in depth research and testing of this and here are my findings:
Replies to your points:
1) It failed with UploadChunkSize value change. Tried 1MB, 500KB, even 100KB. Fails with same error! Is there any other setting we can change for the timeouts at the target TFS server also?
2) The huge files are not skipped. The migration loops on the failed files and doesn't continue to process the next lot of files. So the migration is blocked on the huge files.
3) OK. Thanks.
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Question 1: Can we conclude now that there is some issue with the firewall or network in case of scenario 1? As mentioned above Scenario 1 works if file size is less then approx 3MB.
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