I'm the administrator on our TFS system. I have a user who is connecting to our network through VPN. I want them to be able to check in and check out files, basically he is a member of the Contributors group for the project.

He can see the project and the solutions in the project, but he can't check anything out. He can't even right click on the project and get a popup menu.

Is there a setting for VPN users? If it's security, why can he see them, but not do anything with them?

We were running under workgroup, but now we've upgraded.

Thanks.

As far as I know, TFS and Team Explorer don't do anything specific with regards to VPN, the client simply tries to connect to the TFS server.

You may want to make sure that the user has:

1. Team Explorer installed correctly, you may even want to uninstall and reinstall just to be certain
2. Appropriate rights, log in while not in VPN and see if the problem persists
3. Check the VPN to make sure that there isn't some sort of port blocking or any other sort of security filtering

Also, have the user go to Tools/Options/Source Control and make sure that the currently selected "Source Control Plug-in" is "Visual Studio Team Foundation Server".

We've had situations where this value somehow got set to "None" or "Visual Source Safe", and it causes symptoms similar to these.

CRathjen-MSFT wrote:

Also, have the user go to Tools/Options/Source Control and make sure that the currently selected "Source Control Plug-in" is "Visual Studio Team Foundation Server". We've had situations where this value somehow got set to "None" or "Visual Source Safe", and it causes symptoms similar to these.

This fixed it. Awesome. Thanks!