In TFS Server 2010, I tried to add new user in the below path of Team Foundation Server Administrator Console
Application Tier-> Administration Console Users -> Add link
In Add user dialog, I couldn't able to find other users which are in the same LAN.
I'm using Windows Vista. All machines are in same workgroup
Unless you're actually on a domain with an Active Directory to control and "host" your users, you won't find any of them automatically. Users on computers in workgroups are local to those computers and have to be entered manually.
One way to manage this is to create accounts on the TFS Server server and then use those accounts as credentials when connecting from the workstations.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252507.aspx is an article which describes working with TFS in a workgroup environment more closely and in detail.
The question How to add new users to TFS 2010 (and answers) should also be some help in how to add users on your server.
Basically,
"Computer Management" -> "Local Users and Groups" -> Users
and add your users. Then,
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.
(From the question mentioned above. You should go there and upvote their answers for being good and helpful, too, if this helps you - specifically Bizz' and Kyberias' answers that I quoted here.)
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I'm currently using a free trial version of Azure to be able to create a QnA service as a PoC at work. I have created one and am now looking to collaborate with colleagues so we can provide a full assessment of the tool. I have followed the How To Guide 'Collaborate on your knowledge base', but found that when the person I have added as an Owner (or Contributor, as I tried both) logs in to their free Azure account, they are unable to see the knowledge base.
If they go to 'Create a knowledge base', whilst they are able to select both their own Default Directory and mine, if they select mine, when they go to select an Azure QnA service, they are unable to see mine, only services they have created.
Within Azure Active Directory, I can see the individual with a User Type of Guest and when I click into the detail of their account, I can see that the value for Invitation accepted is set to Yes. I added them within Access control (IAM) and can see that their Role is 'Owner' and the Scope is 'This resource'.
If anyone can provide any explanation as to why this still isn't working or how my colleague can best test whether it is working as expected, then it would be much appreciated.
Many thanks
Gareth
Try asking your colleagues to sign out and back again, that did work for my colleagues.
In our case, we have an Azure Active Directory group that allows to have access to some of the QnAMaker Cognitive Services and therefore, to the Knowledge Bases.
Colleagues that didn't see any of the KBs, even though they were members of that group, didn't accept the invitation. So, I had to send it again to each one of them. But, even after accepting the invitation they couldn't see any of the KBs.
Right after one of these colleagues sign out and back again, he got the list of KBs in the QnAMaker.
>>>> BACKGROUND ON THE ISSUE <<<<
We were using Google Apps for Business when we started with the project. This allowed us to use the Google Developer Console (https://console.developers.google.com/) with our #company.co.za accounts and also to “login with Google” using our #company.co.za accounts. It turns out that the Google Developer Project (where the API keys are) was created using an ex-colleague's #company.co.za Google account.
When we moved from Google Apps for Business to Office 365, we lost the ability to login to the Google Developer Console with our #copany.co.za accounts. By then the colleague wasn’t working here anymore and I guess it all happened so quickly that we didn’t make sure to tie up all the loose ends.
Now we need to transfer development of the app and subsequently all related 3rd party projects and things, to the client for future development, but I cannot access the Google project.
This will require them to create a project on their side, generate new API keys for using the Google Maps API etc. And then update the apps (Android and iOS) with the new API keys.
>>>>> THIS IS MY QUESTION <<<<<
However, and this is where my question comes in, the apps are still working and happily accessing Google Maps. This makes me think that the project must still be somewhere.
I tried to access the Google Help pages, but because we're on a Bronze package, we can only find support information in their developer communities and online documentation listed here:
Join a Community
Service Disruption Notification
Best Practice Guides
But I thought to ask here too because SO is very reliable with answers :)
So, any idea if the project is still live somewhere? Or should we just create a new project with new API keys?
I don't think this is a stackoverflow question since it's not directly programming related. However, if you want to regain access to you project, this should be fairly simple and i hope this helps:
Create a new Google Apps for Business account with your domain (or maybe your old apps domain still exists?) and a single account. If you choose monthly payment the costs will be only a few bucks.
As the Google Apps domain administrator you should be able to access all appengine projects that belong to users of the same domain. If it doesn't you can contact Google support to reassign the projects. Alternatively: You may be able to recreate an account that owned the app. If you don't know the owner email, it is shown in the consent screent for oauth. With that email, try to access the project.
Create a Gmail account and transfer project ownership to this Gmail account
Delete the Google apps domain to avoid additional costs
All this is doable within an hour.
In case it doesn't work i would suggest you contact your Google sales representative or reseller and tell him, that you would like to purchase silver level support, but only if he can restore the permissions for you. This will cost you more, but if you have to access the project it may be the only way.
Last but not least:
You can contact Google support. You don't need silver level support for that. It will just take a lot longer to process your request. While in contact with the Google support you will have to prove that you are in fact the owner of the domain, which is usually done by adding a TXT record to your domain or uploading a file to your web server, so make sure you have access to your domain's DNS zone files / settings or web server document root.
I am the webmaster at our company and we are in the process of picking a new web hosting company. The old company sold us a hosting package years ago and has since left us on the hardware we were given back then: Pentium 3 box, 1GB RAM, Windows 2000 server. They told us that we would have to pick a new hosting package and pay more money to get newer hardware. I only found out about this because Microsoft's site server which we use to replicate our site from dev to prod now givs us trouble because it uses an unsigned java app, which is soon to be no longer supported. all this and the company pays over $300 a month. Ouch.
The problem I am having is this: On the windows 2000 server machine there is an indexing service that is leveraged to generate a catalog of the site that is used as part of a site search feature. I've contacted several web hosting companies and when I ask about the indexing service am told that they can't provide me the same catalog. Some hosts tell me I can get the service if I purchase a vps account as opposed to the cheaper sharred service.
What I'd like to know is if there is a different way to go about developing a search feature for my site. Is there a way to create a search feature that does not us e the indexing service?
If your website content comes from a database then it would be possible to develop your own search facility in ASP and SQL.
If your content is static pages then there are external website services available to index and search these too, similar to what you are using now but external services. A Google search for "search your website" will bring up many products similar in functionality to what you are using now.
Another similar option is you could create a Google Custom Search (paid and free options available) which will index your site and it is easy to add a form to your pages to add this search function.
I imagine you are referring to the Microsoft indexing service which has actually been a built in component since the release of Windows Server 2003. Referred to as Microsoft Windows Search Service, it is installed by default on some versions of Windows Server and is an optional component on others (optional just like IIS is considered an optional component of Windows Server at installation). Previous to Windows Server 2003, it was a separate download on microsoft.com as Windows Search Server. Once installed, depending on the size and number of documents on the server it may takes several hours before an initial search index is built. Before the index is finished building, the search feature will not return all or any expected results.
I mention all this as I have actually found that this is installed by default on hosts we have used in the past without asking. So I am assuming the hosts you may have inquired with may not be realizing you are referring to this built in component of Windows Server and you might want to clarify that with your preferred host(s).
I looked into several alternative methods for developing the search function but none of them would work for sharred hosting that integrates with the site the way it is hosted now. I've decided to focus on VPS hosting as I can install the indexing service and have the page function as it does now on my old host that is running my site on a win 2k server machine. To test the indexing service's functionality, I installed the service on my win 7 PC. After installing indexing service on my windows 7 dev machine, I learned 2 things:
The search page only functions in a 64 bit environment. This means that I have to move the search page to a new folder and use a 64 bit application Pool to get that page to run.
In 64 bit mode, the code line "Set rstResults = objQuery.CreateRecordset("nonsequential")" was returning an error, "No such interface supported". Googling this returned the fact that a windows update breaks functionality and that a hotfix was provided to fix this error. The hotfix, #2740317, is located here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2740317
Now my search function works and I get results. The only problem though is that the results point to file:///c:/Inetpub/... instead of website/path/page.html I had to extract the path field from the recordset and use the replace function to remove the physical path up to the folder containing my site. I now get a relative link that points to the correct files on the site.
The docs recommend the MTS User is a domain account and installing the Content Manager server software on a machine that is in a Windows domain.
In an external hosting situation where I don't have access to the domain controller and I don't want to keep emailing support to create Windows accounts etc, can I just create the MTS User as a local user on the CM server?
Any gotchas?
Yes, you can create the MTSUser account on the local server. No gotchas or any issues. Don't forget to NOT add the user to the CMS or the impersonation users account.
There's no gotchas for a single CM server install, but if you have multiple CM servers connecting to the same DB, each local MTSUser would have to be manually added to the DB with the same settings as the original MTSUser.
For anything beyond a test / dev system, you'd want a domain MTSUser.
I don't see the relation between the question and the Thread here, but is a great explanation about why you can't make the MTS User as impersonation user.
Those answers are good but the context of the answers are regardless if the user is a domain one or a local one.
If the question is if you can have the MTSUser as a local account the answer is yes.
If the question is if that is a good practice, the answer is no, as doesn't help in the maintenance of the platform,
specially in an enterprise environment because maintenance reasons, business process reasons.
However in the context of the scenario where the question is asked and if takes days to make any change at the domain level
maybe could make sense to use a local account, but don't add the user to the CMS nor add as an impersonation one :)
How come one user in the local Administrators Group has no problem hitting http://localhost:8080/services/v1.0/Registration.asmx while other users in the local Administrators Group get 403 (access denied) errors (with nothing in the Event log)?
Have you checked the permissions of all three areas. You need permisssion on server, reporting service and sharepoint for this.
I would strongly recommend you download Team Foundation Server Administrator tool to do this as otherwise it can be a right pain.
rasx, yea, the interface isn't the best on that tool. It basically allows an easy way to set up permissions to the Team Foundation Server, Reporting Services, and Sharepoint.
Most of the security problems I've come across always resolve down to one of those three permissions messed up on a particular user. I'm pretty sure that's what you're experiencing. Without the Team Foundation Administrator Tool that dove mentioned, you can still just add permissions to each of those areas manually.
It sucks that TFS doesn't come with an easy way to manage all permissions everywhere, but there you have it.
dove, I’m not sure about how the Team Foundation Server Administrator tool would help here. I installed it on the TF server and got an empty interface that looks like it is expecting pre-exiting Team projects.