Team Project Creation Failed

Team Project Creation Failed

• LynnOoi

  One problem is that the Identity type is Unknown. It should be Windows user.

  Is there anything special about this user Are the user having problems AD users, or are they local users on the app tier If AD is involved, are there more than one forest, and are there trust relationships between all of the domains

  --Matt Hoover
  Software Design Engineer
  Microsoft Team Foundation Server

  
  

• camgas

  When you install TFS you have to specify service accounts for it to run under.

  Are you sure that a) the account use used has the proper permissions as defined in the installation guide and b) you typed the password correctly during install

  Hope this helps,

  James

   Edit: you might also want to make sure that the identity that TFS is running under has the proper credentials in the database, but this is kind of a long shot since as I recall the install pretty much takes care of this for you.

  
  

• Anjana Mazumder MSFT

  Hi

  Sorry for the long delay in replying, I have been away at two conferences recently. I don;t think that I had the user as a local user of the app tier. I have just reinstalled the box again (have finally received the full version - was using the trial version). I will set it up the same as before and test it and then add the user to the local users group.

  I'll let you know how it works out.

  Again, thanks for you time Matt.

  Cheers

  Jock

  
  

• S!ava

  Hi Matt

  Here is the output of tfssecurity for my user account:

  <output>

  C:\>TFSSecurity.exe -imx /server:vsts ict\j.forrester
  TFSSecurity - Team Foundation Server Security Tool
  (C) Copyright 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

  The target Team Foundation Server is VSTS.
  Resolving identity "ict\j.forrester"...

  SID: valid SID

  DN: Valid ou structure

  Identity type: Unknown
  Logon name: ICT\J.Forrester
  Display name: Jock Forrester
  Description:

  Member of 3 group(s):
  a [SERVER]\Team Foundation Administrators
  e [SERVER]\Team Foundation Valid Users
  a [ICTHelpdesk]\Project Administrators

  Done.

  </output>

  What is the next step

  Thanks for your help

  Jock

  
  

• Michael Creamer

  Hi Matt
  
  I reinstalled the box, added the user to the local users group on the app tier and I still got the same error. Running the tfssecurity app the user was still of an unknown type.
  
  I then added a few other users in the Domain as Project Admins and some of them came back as a Windows user in the tfssecurity app. The only difference between the users the I added is that my account type is InetorgPerson and the other is a User type.
  
  I am going to redo my user as a "User" and see how that works out. I will post back later today.
  
  Cheers
  Jock

  
  

• Gary7

  The first thing to verify is that the users do actually have permission to access TFS. The TfsSecurity utility is located in the Tools directory under the TFS install dir. You can get information on a user with the following command line:

  TfsSecurity /server:<server name> /imx <domain\username>

  If the user does not exist in the TFS databases, you will get the following output:

  D:\>tfssecurity /server:<server name> /imx billg

  TFSSecurity - Team Foundation Server Security Tool

  (C) Copyright 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

  The target Team Foundation Server is <server name>.

  Resolving identity "billg"...

  Error: The identity cannot be resolved.

  Otherwise, you will get a list of groups that the user belongs to, which will let us figure out if the user should be able to access TFS.

  --matt hoover

  Software Design Engineer

  Visual Studio Team Foundation

  
  

• goly

  Hi
  
  I checked all the permissions and the user accounts and it was all fine. I then decided to reinstall from a two server setup to a single server setup jsut in case I missed something.
  
  I can create a project with no problem from the domain\TFSSetup account which was used to setup up VSTS but when I try and add a work item from my standard user account (Project Lead Permissions) I get "TF26204: The account you entered is not recognized. Contact your Team Foundation Server administrator to add your account."
  
  When I try and create a new Team Project from stad user account, I get the same error in my first post.
  
  Thanks for the ideas James, any more
  
  Cheers
  Jock
  
  
  
  

• Udo Eberhardt

  Hi
  
  Changing my AD user type to User from InetOrgPerson has done the trick.
  
  Thanks for your help.
  
  Cheers
  Jock

  
  
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