Team Foundation Server Administration Tool

Welcome to the Team Foundation Server Administration Tool Homepage!

The TFS Admin Tool allows a TFS administrator to quickly add users to all three platforms utilized by Team Foundation Server: Team Foundation Server, Sharepoint, and SQL Reporting Services, all through one common interface. The tool also allows administrators to change the current permissions on any of the three tiers, identify any errors, and view all of the users and their permission sets across Team Foundation Server, Sharepoint, and SQL Reporting Services.

View the Requirements for running the TFS Admin Tool

Check out all of the TFS Admin Tool Features .

Also take a look at additional Power Tools from TFS team here including a TFS Best Practices Analyzer.

Find out about the Collaborative Real-Time Jabber Discussions that let's you interact using IM conference on the product development.

Announcements

10-26-08Support For 2010
There is support for TFS 2010 Beta 2 forthcoming. I'm not ready to publish a timeline but it will be as quickly as possible. As you likely realize there are some new considerations to take into account for 2010 such as Project Collections and likely changes as well around how the tool needs to handle the SharePoint authentication. I'll post more as more information becomes available.

4-26-09TFS Admin Tool 1.4 Production
Version 1.4 has been released. Build 1.4.90426.1. It really has few user level changes from the 1.4 Final Beta. Some of the reports on the final beta have been pushed into the next release or as of yet unrepeatable from our end. Ladislau Szomoru and Peter Blomqvist have been working hard on 1.5 that has some significant changes in terms of user experience (it may end being a 2.0, I don't know yet, but they have been referring to it as 1.5. We'll definitely have a major version number change when Team System 2010 is released. What the feature set will need to be will change drastically and the configuration of environments could be much more diverse making it a challenging release for this tool. It may be like starting over.

4-02-09-TFS Admin Tool 1.4 Final Beta
The new default build is the 1.4 Final Beta (Build 1.4.10402.1). There has been a Beta 2 since the last announcement that was also released but not noted here.
I recommend that you try it out if you have your Sharepoint Admin site on a non-default port, or if you are running a team project without a sharepoint or reporting services site.
Special thanks to Ladislau Szomoru and Peter Blomqvist who did most the work for this build.

3-14-09-TFS Admin Tool 1.4 Beta Released
The 1.4 beta is available and provides support for SQL Server 2008. It also addresses a number of other issues you will see on the release page.
Special thanks to Steve St. Jean for digging in and getting the SQL 2008 support going.
Download 1.4 Beta

3-05-08-Forthcoming Release
We will be creating a new release whose primary goal is to address work item 18247- "Error with TFS 2008, SQLServer 2008 on Windows 2008" but the release will also include a few additional bug fixes/enhancements that are already in process or that can be fit in within the time box to fix 18247. This time box is as of yet undefined but the delivery target date will be defined within the next week When this release is complete we'll start another iteration to address a larger set of defects and enhancements and will continue on until no one finds value in adding to the tool any longer.

There will be some additional wiki pages added to assist in planning and current discussions that have kicked off this effort will be moved to that location and to inside the forum for wider participation. Speaking of wider participation, I would like to invite anyone and everyone to contribute. Right now the best mechanism is grab the code, make the contribution you'd like and upload a patch. I want to get much wider contribution. There are a lot of users out there and a lot of scenarios and a lot of people with good stuff to contribute. So send it on.

Please blog/tweet/*cast/yell that we are actively taking contributions and requests and tell everyone to "come on in the water's fine". Keep a close eye on the discussion area of this project. We'll be adding some wiki pages but a lot will begin in the discussion forum.


1-24-08-TFS Admin Tool 1.3 Released
This release is an upgrade that works with TFS 2008. In additional has few UI enhancements like Display Name column and additional bug fixes. I want to take the time to recognize the great contributions from Michael (mruminer) and the TFS team for their support.
Download TFS Admin Tool 1.3

1-2-07 - TFS Admin Tool 1.2 Released
This release adds the ability to administer a TFS installation configured to only accept SSL connections. Thank you Oren for your code gift to make this new release possible!
Download TFS Admin Tool 1.2

9-14-06 - TFS Admin Tool 1.1 Released
This is the first community-driven release of any of the Power Toys for Visual Studio! Thanks to everyone who contributed code!
Download TFS Admin Tool 1.1

9-8-06 - TFS Admin Tool 1.1 Release Candidate Available for Community Bug Bashing!
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Join the Development Team

Getting Started with TFS Admin Tool Development

1. Install the following development tools
   1. FXCop 1.35 RC 1
   2. NUnit 2.2.7 -- In the next release we're getting rid of the NUnit and FXCop(directly) and using MSTests and Code Analysis
   3. WiX 2.0.3719
2. Download the latest source code
3. Steps for Building TFS Admin Tool
4. Steps for Running Verification Scripts

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Join the Community

There are numerous ways you can participate in the TFS Admin Tool community

• Blog about TFS Admin Tool
• Ask and answer questions on the power toy forums
• Submit issues or feature suggestions
• Fix bugs or check in new features - more info coming soon!