TFS Permissions Tool

Found a cool tool for TFS administrators to change user permissions across all aspects of TFS (Team Foundation roles, SharePoint roles, & Reporting Services roles). The TFS Administration Tool allows you to add, edit, delete and import users for any TFS project.

There was a hitch I had when using it for the first time which had to do with permissions. Since I didn't create all of the projects that are currently in our TFS collections, I didn't automatically have permissions for the SharePoint roles, and therefore couldn't administrate any settings on most projects. Our SharePoint instance for TFS is on the TFS application server, so I had to access SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration on that server. From there:

• Click Application Management
• Under Application Security -> Policy for Web application
• Add user
• choose the web application (mine was already set)
• (All zones)
• Choose Users -> put your username in
• Permissions -> Full Control
• Click Save

Unfortunately it just isn't enough to be in the Farm Administrators group.

This tool is worth checking out if you do a lot of permissions changes! It's really quick and easy to give muliple users the same permissions (like if you've just created a new project and need to add a dozen people to it).

-Ryan