Cannot connect VS 2005 Team Suite client to Team Foundation Server

Cannot connect VS 2005 Team Suite client to Team Foundation Server

• Bill Bickford

  Hello Bruce,
  
  Do you have an idea about my problem
  
  

• smcandrew

  Thank you for the replies. I have now added my account (and others) and we are connecting correctly (aside from a few bugs that others have already reported in these forums).
  
  Thanks again.
  
  Brendan
  

• Amit.Nayar

  You cannot add a local user as team system user. Team system users must be domain users.
  
  

• shaper

  When installing VSTS, there are 2 users that you can use.  First the user that is installing the product.  Second the user you tell VSTS to run under.  These users can be the same person if you want.
  
  When VSTS installs, the user that you are installing under is added to Team Foundation Server as a "Namespace Administrator".  The second user is NOT added to the "Namespace Administrator".
  
  From that point on, the only person who has access rights to VSTS is the person who installed it.  You can either use gssutil.exe (found on the Application Tier in the Visual Studio install directory) or Visual Studio Team Foundation Client (or the Team System client) to add additional users as Namespace Administrators.
  
  Once you have set that up, you can create a project.  You can then assign people to be Project Administrators, Contributors or readers.  NOTE: This currently only affects permissions on Team System.  Report Server and Sharepoint do not inherit from these permissions.
  
  If you add people to the above groups, you will find that they can now connect.  This leads to what I call "the ability to connect to Team Foundation" permission.  This means that in order to connect to a Team Foundation Server you must be part of the Team Foundation Everyone group.  All built in project and global groups automatically are assigned to this group.
  
  

• Terminator2006

  Hi Brendan,
  

  Did you manage to solve your connection in the end
  I am having the exact same issue and I can't find a complete resolution for it.

  Thanks,

  Eddie

  
  

• Maurice C.

  For the first connection, you have to use the TFSSERVICE or TFSSETUP user. Launch visual studio using "Run as..." context menu.
  
  

• duda65607

  Hello Bruce,
  
  I have successfully installed TFS. I have a problem to add some users.
  
  TFS is installed on a computer name 'etbx170', on domain 'AD5'.
  I logged as AD5\TFSSETUP to add users and I was able (thanks to your posts) to add me as a user (AD5\slan) when I'm logged on domain 'AD5'. I usually do not log as AD5\slan, but as BENAMN0019397\slan, where BENAMN0019397 is my computer name. This user has admin rights on the computer, and has access to AD5.
  The problem is that I cannot add user BENAMN0019397\slan to TFS.
  Is there a way to add this user Or do I need to start VS with runas
  I already tried with runas, and it worked.
  
  

• RobertLB

  I was having problems connecting to Team System Application Tier when using a user account that was not TFSSETUP.  I then noticed that under Windows 2003 SP1 I was running visual studio with a "Run As" option that said "Run this program with restricted access".  When I unchecked this option everything started working.
  

• Brendon123

  I am not a domain expert, so that may explain the problem I am having.  I can add ONLY add local users to the TFS groups (namespace administrators, etc.).  When I try to add domain users, windows cannot find the domain users.  Strangely, my domain does not even show up in the Locations box.  Any advice   I tried doing this through the back door by controlling my client machine, adding domain users to the local administrators account, and then adding the local admin account to the namespace administrators group.  I still have the "csstasks problem" that everyone above is having though.
  
  I also don't see the namespace administrators as a domain group.  I assume that is something specific to TFS.  Also, is there some type of admin application, or is the permissions dialog from the client machine running visual studio my only means of administering the application
  
  
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