Yesterday, I was having trouble trying to publish a Visual Studio web app to the wwwroot folder. I could publish it to other folders. The suggested solution to fix the issue was to give the logged on user full rights to the folder. That worked, but I was puzzled because the active user, BESI-CHAD/CHAD, was an Admin user (see image at the bottom of the linked page.)
Now, I am trying to uninstall and re-install TFS and I get the following error suggesting that the user Chad is not in the ServerAdmin role-but I am in that role!
What is going on here?
Error [ Configuration Database ] TF255286: An error occurred while verifying you have the SQL server permission or role membership: serveradmin. You may not even have enough permissions to check. Consider adding your account to the sysadmin server role. The server hosting the databases is BESI-CHAD. The error was: TF30040: The database is not correctly configured. Contact your Team Foundation Server administrator.. See the log for more details.
I ended up using another SQL instance for my TFS db server, an express instance. That worked. I didnt really want another instance. Now, I want to know what happened. If there is a good theory, I might blow away Express and reinstall TFS again.
THis was a while back, but if memory serves, I was an Amdin on the SQL server but did not have rights to the db.