I have installed Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 on Windows 7 Professional edition.
How can I manage (add) new users which can use the TFS 2010?
I had the same challenge. It isn't obvious how this can be done without Visual Studio but here we go... On your TFS 2010 server:
Go to Team Foundation Server
Administration Console
Navigate to your Team Project Collection
Select Group Membership from the General tab
Open Project Collection Valid Users. It should include your Team Projects's groups as
members.
Select suitable Team Project group and add your user into that group.
Since you don't have a server version of windows, you can't have a domain, so you can't add domain users to your project.
You should either install a server (which most people might recommend) or you can save your time and effort and just simply create local users on your TFS server (which can have any version of windows). This method will work just the same as installing a windows server. To do that just go to this location:
"Computer Management" -> "Local Users and Groups" -> Users
Add any users you want and in order to prevent windows from showing them in the welcome screen, double click on each one of them and remove their member of data (which is set to Users by default)
Then follow Kyberias' instructions.
Connect to a team project in VS2010.
In the Team Explorer menu expand your team project.
Right click Team Members and select Add Team Member.
From here you can add members and assign them permissions based on what they should be allowed to do on the project.
I hope this is what you are looking for.
The problem here is that there are no TFS users per se. TFS authenticates users against windows which runs it. Once you have some windows users, then you must configure permissions as mentioned by Kyberias.
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How do I set up a work item only view in TFS 2013 Express?
There is no such a group built in.
"Work Item Only View" has been replaced by a "Limited" view in Team Web Access.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj159364.aspx#how_to for more information on how to change it.
If you're not seeing it, it could be that you're not at the root administration page for TFS, or you're not an administrator. Try going directly to http(s)://[server]/tfs/_admin/_licences.
I suggest you to access Team Explorer, included in Visual Studio
You must connect by entering Server Url , Team Project Collection & Team Project
You have also easy solution by Add In On Excel (Add In Excel is installed with Team Explorer), Open WIQL query writetd on your Portal for example
On 2013 you have new organization on your Team Explorer, if you don't find you can use search engine
I want to use TFS 2012 code review template. I am using vS2012 online TFS workspace, where i created 5 of users.
From VS2012 I am trying to Add Reviewer to review my code, it display error like "Reviewer name is not in the list of allowed reviewers."
You need to go to your Team Project and add some users to your Team. If you first select your Team Project \ Team you will notice that you have a "Members (0)" on the right. If you click "Manage all members" under that heading you can add any number of Windows or Microsoft Id users to that list.
Now that you have the users added to the Team, if you also select that Team in Visual Studio you will be able to select any of those users for review. This list is in fact of all users that have 'contributor' permissions to the Team Project which is granted by using the above process.
If you are having trouble setting up and configuring teams I have created a post on Modelling Teams in Team Foundation Server 2013.
After several weeks with that problem, I found out that I had to do a hard clear cache on my Visual Studio. After that, it showed me a correct list of reviewers.
I found out that by this forum post: https://developercommunityapi.westus.cloudapp.azure.com/content/problem/1145784/reviewer-name-is-not-in-the-list-of-allowed-review-1.html
And here is how you can clear the cache of VS (I had to do all steps):
https://errorhandlinginskills.wordpress.com/2018/07/28/how-to-clear-visual-studio-cache/
We have a team that consists of a number of non-developers - for these non-developers to create and modify Work Items, would they need to have VS 2010 / Team Explorer installed on their machines? Or is it possible to create and modify Work Items through the project's SharePoint site or some other built-in means?
I've not yet installed a full test TFS 2010 instance, so I can't check it out myself.
You can also create or edit workitems using Team System Web Access portal which will be configured as part of TFS2010 Installation. You can access this portal using this URL: http://[TFSServer]:8080/tfs/web
You can also configure users to access the restricted version of this portal(Work Item Only View) which the users can connect without using CAL. In this version, the users can add or edit the workitems only created by them.
You can create and edit work items from the sharepoint site for a team project in TFS 2010. but the users will still need a Client Access Licence (CAL) to do more than very basic work item management. The url will be something like http://[tfsServer]/sites/[tfsCollection]/[tfsTeamproject]/Dashboards/ProjectDashboard_wss.aspx. If you right click on the Team Project in Team Explorer and select "show project portal" then it will open a browser in the correct location.
I think the licence basically says that users can create and modify their own work items without a CAL. If they need to view work items created by other users, or allocate work items to other users, then a CAL is required.
I just installed TFS Server 2010 on Windows 7 Ultimate.
I even managed to connect to the TFS server using Visual Studio 2010 - I didn't have to enter any login and password, as Windows Authentication was automatically used.
Now I need to add a new user to TFS, with a specific login and password, so that a member of the project could access the TFS server from the Internet.
However, I did not find a way to add a new user to TFS!
I used to work with Visual SourceSafe, and there the management of users was quite straightforward.
Any help would be appreciated!
It's a little weird in non-domain situations.
Create a new local user on your computer.
In Visual Studio, look on the Team menu for Team Project Collection settings
Add that new user to the Authorized Users group (I think-- I'm not able to access mine right now, so I'm not sure what it's called. It's something like that, though).
On the Team menu, find Team Project Settings
Add the same user to the Contributors group.
When the other user logs on, they will have to specify the TFS Application Tier computer as the domain name. For example, if you installed TFS on a computer named MyWin7Box, they would sign on as MyWin7Box\Username
I'm looking for a way to add work items into tfs from the project portal that it creates. Basically we want our helpdesk to be to raise workitems inside of tfs, so we can then track the build etc that there fixed in.
Can anyone shed any light on this?
Microsoft released the Visual Studio Team System Web Access 2008 Power Tool.
Base download
Service pack 1
Team System Web Access SP1 lets you do all the things you can do in Visual Studio in your browser. You can view, create, and edit work items, associate work items with each other and with changesetsand view source, diffs, changeset contents, and branches.
SP1 also includes what was once called TFS Work Item Web Access. Work Item Web Access lets users without TFS licenses submit and view work items through the browser.
With a little SharePoint magic you should be able to frame Team System Web Access within your existing team sites.