I have a TFS 2012 Team site specifically for TFS Management. I would like to place template links for creating work items on the site so that team leads may create work items for me to add users or otherwise modify permissions.
I created the templates by the "Copy template URL" (a great feature btw), and then sent this as an email to my stakeholders.
I think it is better to have this link easily available from my team site. Are there any suggestions?
Not sure what you mean by team site. There is the TFS Web Access page, and then there is the optional Team Project Portal (in SharePoint).
If you are using the Portal in SharePoint then you can add a links webpart to any page within the site.
If you are talking about the TFS Web Access page, then I don't think there is currently any supported method to customize the home page to add arbitrary links.
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Like the title says, how can I customize the web dashboard in TFS 2012? I have created my own Work Item Type and would like a shortcut on the home page of Team Web Access. I am using the default Team Web Access page and I would just like to have a shortcut button immediately on the front page instead of in a dropdown, which is where it's contained now.
Thanks!
There is no supported way to do this. In TFS 2015 they have the concept of Web Extensions, but that is only for specific extension points which doesn't include changing the home page.
You can do it in an unsupported manner, but I wouldn't recommend it. You can find the ASPX/CSS/JS files on the server that TFS uses for the web site and hack away at them. I've known people that have done this before. But there are probably repercussions when it comes time to upgrade.
For posterity, I've found a dirty solution to do this without cloning the website and gutting it (as described here: http://awaitwisdom.com/how-to-extend-tfs-team-web-access/). Note that this solution is really dirty and may not fit your project needs.
The solution works by swapping the default work item options (based on the process template you are using).
Use WITADMIN to export your Categories into an XML. Find a work item currently on the front page that you're okay with swapping out for the work item you want to be on the front page. Change "DEFAULTWORKITEMTYPE" to "WORKITEMTYPE" in the tags. Add a new entry: and it should show up as one of the shortcut buttons on your home page.
I highly recommend doing your modifications with Microsoft TFS Power Tools 2012.
I'm trying to configure the organization authentication in an ASP.NET MVC project in Visual Studio 2013 RC.
After filling the data in the create project dialog, like Microsoft instructed in their tutorials, I'm getting an error which says that the configure failed.
I've tried to do so as well in Visual Studio 2012 using the identity addon.
Maybe it's related to Windows Azure AD?
Here is the error that I'm getting:
Hopes that someone knows how to fix that issue. Thanks for any help and suggestion!
This question is old, but today I found a workaround that I'd like to share.
It seems like we can't use Microsoft Account when we're using WAAD.
So:
Create a WAAD.
Add an administrator
Choose local directory account, not Microsoft Account.
Grant this account Global Administrator permissions.
Open Visual Studio and create a new web based project.
Choose in authentication the "Organization Accounts".
Specify your WAAD URL (e.g. "foo#onmicrosoft.com").
When you're required to insert your user and password, use the local account username and password. for example ("oz#foo.onmicrosoft.com").
This will allow you to pass the error.
Edit:
Microsoft published a post that referred to this problem and show the solution (the one I described above). http://www.cloudidentity.com/blog/2013/12/11/setting-up-an-asp-net-project-with-organizational-authentication-requires-an-organizational-account/
I would check for two things:
The account used to login to Windows Azure while has Global Admin role in AAD
App ID URI specified in the project creation dialog is valid. Valid App ID URI for domain mydomain.onmicrosoft.com has format https://mydomain.onmicrosoft.com/uniqueUri. Note that you can leave this field blank and the tool will automatically pick the correct App ID URI for you.
If these two things don't help, I would encourage you to run DebugView (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896647.aspx) in the background while trying to create a similar project and you can see the actual error message in the trace in DebugView.
In follow up to OzB:
Once you've setup the user in AAD as per OzB's account,
note that you must also then go to "Settings" in Azure and add that account as an administrator of the Azure subscription, otherwise you can't upload the website itself.
I was asked to setup a TFS 2010 environment so the team wouldn't have to send the project updates to each other by email. I set it up on a Windows 2008 R2 DC holding all of the AD accounts normally used for logging on to the client computers. After going through the installation and then configuration wizards, it all installed successfully.
I then added myself to the TF Administrators group and tried to log in to the web interface. But it seemed to refuse my credentials. I tried everything, creating a new TF group and adding myself to it and I tried adding myself to the project collection administrator group. Nothing seems to work.
Did I overlook a certain function or button to link the AD accounts to the TFS? Or did I do something else wrong?
By logging 'in to the web interface' do you mean the SharePoint web interface? If so, you need to grant your accounts access to the SharePoint site. The admin account that you have running the server is a SharePoint admin, so you should be able to log in as that and modify SharePoint user permissions as needed.
SharePoint security, SQL security, and TFS security are all separate from each other. But the TFS Admin Tool provides an interface for you to maintain security on all three platforms at once.
I've just created a new Test instance of TFS 2005 SP1 and migrated the databases. The TFS part seems to work correctly, but the Sharepoint site doesn't seem to work.
http://TfsServer/sites/Project1/default.aspx gives a 404 error.
Also heading to Sharepoint Central Administration --> Manage Site collection owners and entering the above site name under 'Web Site URL' gives the following error message:
'The virtual server that is referenced here is not in the config database"
The config database is the only one I did not restore from the source (following instructions here). How do I go about recreating the Sharepoint site?
Thanks!
Sharepoint Central Admin
Manage Web Server List
click on server name
Configure Virtual Server settings
Default Web site
Manage Content Databases
Click on STS_Content_TFS
Note the values in textboxes.
Check Remove content database and click on OK.
Recreate content database with the same name (STS_Content_TFS) and other information
as above.
I was wondering if it's possible to access the ASP.NET Configuration Tool once a site is live. To be able to create and edit users and roles is obviously very important, and from what I've been reading, once a site is deployed, the Configuration Tool is no longer accessible. If this is the case, HOW do I add users, etc.?
By the way, I found a User Management plugin which brings a lot of the Configuration Tool's capabilities to the front end of a User Management section of the deployed website, but it DOES NOT offer the capability to add a new user. Help??? Thanks!!
That all depends. If by "going live" you mean "Publishing the website and the database to a different computer through which you cannot access the database any longer", then yes. If you still have sql access (ie. you can run SQL Management Studio from your dev machien) the no you can access it by changing your web.config.
Alternatively, you can install Visual Studio express on your remote server and be able to access it from there.
The ASP.NET Configuration Tool GUI is not available once the site is live unless you have access to the database from your development machine.
All of the settings for user authentication can be modified via your web.config file.
You can add/edit users and roles via the Membership and Roles class in the System.Web.Security namespace.
1: Website admin tool is accessible via Visual Studio only.
2: You can access your membership database on live via WSAT by changing connectionstring in your web.config to point to your live membership db.
Apart from using WSAT, asp.net has CreateUser control which you can use to create user on live. This is the same control used by WSAT.
These links should help:
CreateUserWizard
Custom WSAT Tool
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/10/18/427754.aspx