13.8 Administering Team Foundation Users with the TFS Administration Tool

Maintaining users in a Team Foundation Server environment can be a complex task. Three different platforms support TFS activities: Team Foundation Server itself, SharePoint, and SQL Reporting Services. Trying to manage users across all three of those environments can be complicated and time-consuming.

The TFS Administration Tool allows TFS administrators to quickly add and remove users to users from any of these platforms, through one common interface. The tool also allows administrators to view all of the users and their permission sets, change their current permissions, and identify any errors across the three tiers.

Team Foundation Server Administration Tool at a Glance

Tool

Team Foundation Server Administration Tool

Version covered

1.0

Home page

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=59385

Power Tools page

http://www.windevpowertools.com/tools/127

Summary

Administration tool for managing user permissions across the three server platforms utilized by TFS

License type

Microsoft Permissive License (Ms-PL)

Online resources

Documentation, forums, bug tracker

Supported Frameworks

.NET 2.0

Getting Started

The following items are required for running the TFS Administration Tool:

  • .NET Framework 2.0

  • Administrative rights for the TFS server, SharePoint server, and SQL Reporting Services server to which you wish to add users

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