Changing Groups and Permissions with TFSSecurity

You can use the TFSSecurity command-line utility to create, modify, and delete groups and users in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS), in addition to modifying permissions for groups and users. For information about how to perform these tasks in the user interface, see Configuring Users, Groups, and Permissions.

By default, you can find this utility in Drive:\Program Files\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 11.0\Tools on the application-tier server or servers for Team Foundation.

Note

Even if you are logged on with administrative credentials, you must open an elevated Command Prompt to perform this function.

You can use the options in the following table for all commands in this utility.

Option

Description

/?

Displays the command syntax and options for TFSSecurity.

In This Section

TFSSecurity Identity and Output Specifiers

/i Command

/im Command

/imx Command

/g Command

/gcg Command

/gc Command

/gun Command

/gud Command

/gd Command

/g+ Command

/g- Command

/m Command

/a+ Command

/a- Command

/acl Command