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Adding users not in any company domain?

We will kicking off our TFS installation shortly and a question came up regarding sharing the source with devs from our out-sourced company.

TFS will be installed in AD mode and all our onsite folks are on the same domain. But how do we get our outsourced (contracted) development teams access to TFS as well since they are not part of any domain (trusted or unstrusted)?

Do we have to add them to a domain? We really do not want to go this route if at all possible.

DQM

Yes you will have to add them to the domain, or at least, if you don't want to add the machines to the domain, create accounts for them to be able to log on the TFS. Anyway maybe some other folk here have more info about this.

Luis Fraile - MCSD.NET - http://luisfraile.spaces.live.com/

Luis Fraile

Mistakenly posted a reply for this in one of my earleir posts. Anyways, it looks like this is not supported based on this post:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=436653&SiteID=1

The post also mentions that SP1 will allow basic authentication - no idea when it will be released though.

DQM

You don't have to add them to the domain - you can leverage the Windows "Workgroup Authentication" (there may be a more official name for it, that's what I know it as) where you create local accounts on the app tier with the same user/pass as a local account on the box they're connecting from.

You can see AdamSinger's recent post about this (although his is more focused on not having AD around at all)

http://blogs.msdn.com/adamsinger/archive/2006/09/22/766187.aspx

Also, this article has a relevant section ("Team Foundation Clients in a Workgroup and Team Foundation Server in a Domain")

http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsue/articles/Managing_Team_Foundation_Server_in_a_Workgroup.aspx

Team Foundation Server - http://blogs.msdn.com/jmanning/

James Manning - MSFT

This is what I was searching for all this time.

Thanks!

DQM

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