Suppose I have a team foundation server http://tfs:8080 and a collection named Collection1 and a project named Project1. How would I go about giving user User1 all privileges on the project? (Either by adding him to the Team Project Administrators group OR by granting individual privileges as you would in the GUI)
How to use TFSSecurity.exe to add users to administrator group on Team Foundation Server team project
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Best Answer
This is what i would recommend, download the TFS ADMIN tool http://tfsadmin.codeplex.com/, this is a community tool that for TFS Administrators, The TFS Administration Tool allows Team Foundation Server administrators to manage user permissions on all three platforms utilized by Team Foundation Server: Team Foundation Server, SharePoint, and SQL Server Reporting Services. The tool also allows administrators to easily copy user permissions among team projects and to easily identify any missing permissions on any of the three platforms.
However, you don't need the admin tool to assign permissions. You can right click on the team project and click on group membership, double click on the group that you would like to add the user to and add their windows login to the group. You can read more about this here, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252477.aspx
HTH Cheers, Tarun