Question

I´ve setup a Test Controller and several Test Agents on VMs. I was able to connect to the Test Controller with every Test Agent except the one installed on a Windows 7 Starter edition. Problem is obvious. Win 7 Starter can not join the domain where the PC hosting the Test Controller is located. How can i get around this problem? Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

What have you tried so far? There’s a number of resources that talk about cross domain issues.

Try 2.2. Controller/Agent in untrusted Windows domains or one is in a workgroup and another one is in domain.

From: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-AU/vststest/thread/df043823-ffcf-46a4-9e47-1c4b8854ca13

• Mirror user account on Controller and Agent: create a user account with same user name and password on both Controller and Agent machine.
• Use mirrored user account to run Controller and Agent services under this account.
• If you are using VS2010 RC+ version (i.e. RC or RTM but not Beta2), add the following line to the qtcontroller.exe.config file under the appSettings node:

<add key=”AgentImpersonationEnabled” value=”no”/>

• Restart Controller/Agent services (see Tools section in the Appendix).
  Make sure there is no IP Security Policy that prevents the connection (see IP Security Policy under Tools section in the Appendix).
• By default for domain machines Windows uses domain (Kerberos) authentication, but if it fails it will fall back to workgroup (NTLM) authentication. This behavior can be and often is altered by IP Security policies, for instance, there could be a policy to block connections from machines which do not belong to the domain.
• Restart or re-configure Controller and Agent.

Or Running Tests cross domain with TFS and Visual Studio 2010
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dustin_andrews/archive/2010/08/12/running-tests-cross-domain-with-tfs-and-visual-studio-2010.aspx