/a+ Command

Visual Studio Team System

/a+ Command

Use /a+ to add an access control entry.

Required Permissions

To use the /a+ command, you must be a member of the Team Foundation Administrators security group. For more information, see Team Foundation Server Permissions.

Note:
Even if you are logged on with administrative credentials, you must open an elevated Command Prompt to perform this function on a server that is running Windows Server 2008. To open an elevated Command Prompt, click Start, right-click Command Prompt, and click Run as Administrator. For more information, see the Microsoft Web site.

TFSSecurity /a+ objectID actionID identity (ALLOW | DENY) /server:servername

Parameters

Argument	Description
objectID	URI of the access control object.
actionID	Name of the permission that access is granted or denied for. For a list of valid IDs, see Team Foundation Server Permissions and Team Foundation Server Default Groups, Permissions, and Roles.
identity	Specifies the identity of the user or the group. For more information on the identity specifiers, see TFSSecurity Identity and Output Specifiers. ALLOW The group or user is granted access to the operation specified by the actionID. DENY The group or user is denied access to the operation specified by the actionID.
/server:servername	Required. Specifies the name of the application tier server.

Remarks

Run this command on the local application tier computer.

Access control entries are security mechanisms that determine which operations a user, group, service, or computer is authorized to perform on a computer or server.

Tasks

How to: Create a Server-Level Group

Other Resources

TFSSecurity Command-Line Utility Commands

Team Project Groups

Default Groups