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Asked: 2026-06-04T03:55:43+00:00

We have recently installed TFS 2010. Our Active Directory users (i.e. my company’s staff)

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We have recently installed TFS 2010. Our Active Directory users (i.e. my company’s staff) can access it just fine.

However, we also have contractors working in the office who do not have an AD account. I am having difficulty trying to get the non-AD users to connect to TFS through Visual Studio. The contractors are on the same LAN but have no AD account, which we do to restrict access to other resources on the network.

I created local Windows user accounts on the server for the contractors. With the local account they can access the TFS web front end but still cannot connect through Visual Studio.

Is there any way to do this? Do the contractors need to have Remote Desktop access to the server itself?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You should definitely give your contractors AD accounts. If you want to restrict access to internal resources, you can use Organisational Units in AD, like

    • MyCompany
      • Employees
      • Contractors

    And set access restrictions to your resources according to groups linked to the OUs.

    Giving remote access to the server will just create another set of issues.

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