Error TF30063: You are not authorized to access …

Question

I'm using TFS Preview (Team Foundation Service) with one of my projects with Visual Studio 2012. I'm also using an on-premises TFS server with most of my projects. When I use my on-premises TFS after using TFS preview and go back to using TFS preview, I get this error:

TF30063: You are not authorized to access MyProject\DefaultCollection.

If I go to Team → Disconnect TFS and then connect to TFS preview again, I'm able to see a "Loading identifiers" loading screen coming up, but in the end I don't get to enter my credentials to TFS preview (my Microsoft account) and as a result, the TF30063 error still occurs.

I suspect this has something to do with my Microsoft account (i.e. Live ID). I'm logged in to Windows with the same Microsoft account that I use at TFS preview. I have logged in to other sites (Windows Development Center, MSDN, etc.) with other Microsoft accounts, but I verified that if I log out of these services and re-login with the correct Microsoft account, I still get the TF30063 error when I try to log in to TFS preview from Visual Studio.

Answer 1

I've experienced this issue after an TFS upgrade, and somehow Visual Studio is caching invalid login credentials. I've found two ways to fix it, first, using this answer I completely reset Visual Studio, then reconnected:

Click on menu Tools → Import and Export Settings → Reset all settings → Next → "No, just reset settings, overwriting all current settings" → Next → Finish.

For some strange reason, after the reset it connected without issue (I didn't even have to re-enter my credentials or reconfigure TFS after the reset).

The second approach was easier. First close all instances of Internet Explorer and Visual Studio, then open Internet Explorer and browse to TFS, login, then open Visual Studio again and attempt to connect to TFS one more time.

Answer 2

I solved this issue by using the browser from within Visual Studio, View->Other Windows->Web Browser; Ctrl+W, W (or Ctrl+Alt+R in VS2010/VS2012) to navigate to the TFS page and log out of the wrong account and log back in.

For me, the issue was caused by using another live-id to unlock a windows phone for development. Somehow the credentials got cached, it seems.

Answer 3

Make sure that Windows Authentication hasn't been disabled for the Website / Application within IIS.

I'm not sure HOW this happened, but I did uninstall Hyper-V today to be able to install VMWare Player and then re-install Hyper-V

Reenabling this allowed everything to work again.

Answer 4

In my case I had a proxy. I had edited the devenv.exe.config and set the proxy there. But today I changed the proxy domain password and TFS failed (menu View → Windows → Browser also failed). I could of course have edited the devenv.exe again. But there was a solution to remove it altogether. A brilliant one. It is given here.

Open menu TOOLS* → Extensions & Updates.
Click on Updates... in the left-hand menu

Here it asks for password and restarting Visual Studio. All okay. For more info, look for the answer in the link.

Answer 5

Try making Internet Explorer your default browser temporarily.

Answer 6

The TFS Preview login apparently uses Internet Explorer and thus might conflict with other MS Accounts you are using. Fully clearing the IE cache seems to work for me. After the cache clearing, I get to the correct login screen and may enter my credentials as needed.