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Asked: 2026-05-31T07:47:33+00:00

I’m getting nowhere slowly using tfssecurity.exe to programatically give a user the retainindefinitly permission

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I’m getting nowhere slowly using tfssecurity.exe to programatically give a user the retainindefinitly permission on a TFS build definition.

I’m using TFS2010 and the command line

tfssecurity /a+ Build [teamprojectname] RetainIndefinitely n:domain\user ALLOW /collection:http://mytfsserver:8080/tfs/collectionname

and it’s saying done and showing the ACL for the object.

But it just doesn’t change anything in the Team Explorer window, and permissions are not changed for the user.

I know something is wrong, probably with my token as I can’t list any existing ACL’s either using the /acl switch, but information on this is quite, well, non-existent.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks.

Alan.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Short answer: this appears to be a TFS bug, and can’t be done. Your command is good, but TFS does not process it as expected.

    Long answer: I have been attempting a similar command (Windows 7 x64, Visual Studio 2010 SP1, TFS 2010), and encountered the same issue. Microsoft technical support was able to reproduce the problem, and a bug has been submitted to the Visual Studio development team at Microsoft.

    You can see the bug report here, and indicate that you can reproduce it, here:

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