How to add new users to TFS 2010

Question

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?

Answer 1

1. Connect to a team project in VS2010.
2. In the Team Explorer menu expand your team project.
3. Right click Team Members and select Add Team Member.
4. 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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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.