Error TF30063 You are not authorized to access DefaultCollection

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I m using TFS Preview  Team Foundation Service  with one of my projects with Visual Studio 2012  I m also using an on-premises TFS server with most of my projects  When I use my on-premises TFS after using TFS preview and go back to using TFS preview  I get this error      TF30063  You are not authorized to access MyProject DefaultCollection    If I go to Team   Disconnect TFS and then connect to TFS preview again  I m able to see a  Loading identifiers  loading screen coming up  but in the end I don t get to enter my credentials to TFS preview  my Microsoft account  and as a result  the TF30063 error still occurs   I suspect this has something to do with my Microsoft account  i e  Live ID   I m logged in to Windows with the same Microsoft account that I use at TFS preview  I have logged in to other sites  Windows Development Center  MSDN  etc   with other Microsoft accounts  but I verified that if I log out of these services and re-login with the correct Microsoft account  I still get the TF30063 error when I try to log in to TFS preview from Visual Studio

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I got this error  after all fiddling work I could do  mdash  the disk space was full   Clearing it fixed my issue

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I ve experienced this issue after an TFS upgrade  and somehow Visual Studio is caching invalid login credentials  I ve found two ways to fix it  first  using this answer I completely reset Visual Studio  then reconnected      Click on menu Tools   Import and Export Settings   Reset all settings   Next    No  just reset settings  overwriting all current settings    Next   Finish    For some strange reason  after the reset it connected without issue  I didn t even have to re-enter my credentials or reconfigure TFS after the reset    The second approach was easier  First close all instances of Internet nbsp Explorer and Visual Studio  then open Internet nbsp Explorer and browse to TFS  login  then open Visual Studio again and attempt to connect to TFS one more time

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When Visual Studio prompted me for Visual Studio Team Services credentials there are two options    Use a  Work or School  Use a  Personal  account   In my situation I was using a work email address  however  I had to select  Personal  in order to get connected   Selecting  Work or School  gave me the  tf30063 you are not authorized to access     error   For some reason my email address appears to be registered as  personal  even though everything is setup in Office 365   Azure as a company   I believe the Microsoft account was created prior to our Silver Partnership status with Microsoft

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I tried the following to resolve this issue  Hopefully one of these will work for you  A - Close VS then start the VS Developer Command prompt as an administrator  Then enter  devenv  resetuserdata  B - Clear the cache in IE  apparently VS uses this to access your account mentioned here   C - Click View - gt  Other Window - gt  Web browser  CTRL ALT r  sign in to your old account  log out and sign in to your new one  D - Open the folder containing you solution  delete  backup if you want  the Visual Studio Source Control Solution Metadata File delete the  suo file and open the  sln file in Notepad and delete the below section  GlobalSection TeamFoundationVersionControl    preSolution     SccNumberOfProjects   6     SccEnterpriseProvider                                SccTeamFoundationServer   theServer     SccLocalPath0         SccProjectUniqueName1   pro     SccProjectName1   myProject BL     SccLocalPath1   myProject BL          more stuff      EndGlobalSection   The last step was required because  while I had managed to disconnect VS my solution was still trying to connect to the old source control account

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Disconnect from Team Fountation Server under Team Menu and reconnect it from Connect Tab under Team Explorer Window

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When I came accross this issue none of the provided answers solved this problem or if it did I didn t like recreating the project  The way I ended up solving the issue      Clicking on the  Connect to Team Projects button   The plug next to the home button in the Team Explorer tab  Right click the project you are getting this issue on  Click Connect    I guess the  Remember me  cookie timed out but gave me a generic response for trying to push or pull any code

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The TFS Preview login apparently uses Internet Explorer and thus might conflict with other MS Accounts you are using  Fully clearing the IE cache seems to work for me  After the cache clearing  I get to the correct login screen and may enter my credentials as needed

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I solved this issue by using the browser from within Visual Studio  View- Other Windows- Web Browser  Ctrl Alt R  or   Ctrl W  W  in VS versions before VS2010  to navigate to the TFS page and log out of the wrong account and log back in   For me  the issue was caused by using another live-id to unlock a windows phone for development  Somehow the credentials got cached  it seems

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I went through a number of these solutions too  here what worked for me   For some reason Team explorer thought I was trying to upload to a new project   Under Team Explorer -  Sync  I clicked  Advanced  which then showed a Project dropdown as well  which I didn t have to change in my case  I just clicked Publish Repository  and voila

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I finally found the right answer for me on the web   For me it happened after I changed my password and Windows cached the TFS password  It is require to be updated manually  This is one way to do it   Solution found at  developercommunity visualstudio com  CREDIT  Lavente Nagy  Thanks so much   Fix Summary      I found a solution  and it works on Windows nbsp 7 Windows nbsp 10 too  The steps are the same       Close Visual Studio  Go to Control Panel  with small icon view    User   Accounts   Manage your credentials  on the left column    Select    Windows Credentials    Scroll down to the  Generic Credentials    section and look for your TFS server connection  Expand the pull down   and click  Edit   Enter in new network password  Reopen Visual Studio and   everything should work again

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I have just removed the server from Team Explorer  then added again  and it worked

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None of the current answers worked for me  I found a solution here      The issue was that my previous credentials were cached by the Windows   OS for the TFS server  While some people might have had success wiping   out the AppData temp folders  that is not required       You need to update the credentials through Control Panel on the   Windows OS       For me on Windows 10  Close VS  Go to Control Panel  with small icon   view -- User Accounts-- Manage your credentials  on the left   column -- Select  Windows Credentials -- Scroll down to the  Generic   Credentials  section and look for your TFS server connection  Expand   the pull down and click  Edit   Enter in new network password  Reopen   VS and everything should work again

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Make sure your password hasn t coincidentally expired exactly on the same day you decided to install a new dev machine   If you can t even log into TFS using the web interface then this may be the case

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Now I got the solution to the problem which I have faced  The TFS remembered the prior password when I got logged in by using my mobile VPN   Solution   Resetting the account that I used to connect using VPN

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press Win button  then type credential manager and open it   Add generic credentials  Go back to team explorer  add the server again

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Just restarting the visual Studio would do the job  As I did this and it worked like a charm

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What isn t officially an answer here  but worked for me  the other answers didn t help   Click Team Explorer tab -  Connect hyperlink - connect choose repository   And it works

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I get this problem when I am forced by our IT security policy to change my password  After a password change  when I connect to TFS using VS2017  I am no longer authorized to access our TFS server and get the TF30063  You are not authorised to access     8080 tfs error message   However  if I connect using VS2013  I can connect to the server without problems and the access denied error with VS2017 goes away

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In my case I had a proxy  I had edited the devenv exe config and set the proxy there  But today I changed the proxy domain password and TFS failed  menu View   Windows   Browser also failed   I could of course have edited the devenv exe again  But there was a solution to remove it altogether  A brilliant one  It is given here   Open menu TOOLS    Extensions  amp  Updates   Click on Updates    in the left-hand menu  Here it asks for password and restarting Visual Studio  All okay  For more info  look for the answer in the link

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I had to  run as a different user  to get Visual Studio to connect using my TFS account  It seemed to be trying to use my Microsoft account instead   Text and image from  https   www visualstudio com en-us docs connect connect-team-projects  To change accounts  To run Visual Studio under an account that is different from your logged on Windows account  open the context menu for devenv exe to access your run as options     You can locate the executable in the following folder  Drive  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 12 0 Common7 IDE

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After updating from TFS 2018 v3 to DevOps Server 2019 0 1 last weekend I now receive this authentication error when attempting to manage security   TF30063  You are not authorized to access tfs   I receive this error when attempting to manage security from the Server Administration Console via Application Tier   Administer Security  I also receive the error when I attempt to set permissions via tfssecurity cli tool  I am in the local administrator group and I am listed in the console administration user section   I m trying to set permissions because after the update I received several reports from employees that receive errors when they try to access their projects  Those errors are   TF40049  You do not have licensing rights to access this feature  Code   I spent 8 hrs working through this issue yesterday  and this is what fixed our problem    deleted DevOps server cache   location of cache listed in devops admin console on server  reboot server    I deleted the cache off the server based on an article I read with the same error  a user was having security permissions issues with visual studio and they deleted the vs cache on their local machine and it solved their problem  I don t know if deleting the cache or the reboot would have fixed it independently because I did them both as a single troubleshooting step   Hope this helps someone

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This happens to me regularly  and none of the solutions described above works every time  Most of the times the solution where you use the  Connect to Team Projects button  works fine  but sometimes nothing happens when I do this   Other times I simply have to re-login to http   tfs visualstudio com using the Visual Studio built-in browser  Ctrl Alt R  or via Internet Explorer    As suggested in some of the other answers  for my part this is not caused by multiple live-ids

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In team explorer I removed project    then in Manage Connections  clicked on  Connect to a Project          In this screen choose your project then click on Connect    this solved my problem

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If Rizowski s answer of clicking the green plug connect-button doesn t work and you have multiple workspaces  the problem might go away by switching to the other workspace and back again

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Try making Internet nbsp Explorer your default browser temporarily

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Make sure that Windows Authentication hasn t been disabled for the Website   Application within IIS   I m not sure HOW this happened  but I did uninstall Hyper-V today to be able to install VMWare Player and then re-install Hyper-V  Reenabling this allowed everything to work again

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I tried all of the suggestions here  None worked  This could be my particular situation where I connect some VS instances to our company TFS and some instances to my private TFS   The only way to solve it for me is to close all VS instances and start a new instance   Oddly enough  connecting to the internal TFS is never a problem  Connecting to   visualstudio com sometimes raises this issue

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I have upgraded TFS 2015 to TFS 2017  and then the TF30063 error occured on one of my client machines  None of the solutions here worked     For me the only solution that worked was running the following command from the Developer Command Prompt   tf workspaces  collection https   tfs xxxxx com tfs DefaultCollection   Of course  you need to adjust the url to the valid one   Source  https   www visualstudio com en-us docs setup-admin tfs admin backup refresh-data-caches

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For me the error came after changing my password for my AD account   I had to remove the line from credential manager  which contained the previous password    Then it worked again

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For me  all the above didn t work  worked partially though    In credential manager  under Windows credentials and Generic Credentials both places I had to add user credential    In Windows Credentials  TFS Server name without  http  and port info  Just server name   In Generic Credentials  TFS Server name with  http  and port info  like  http   servername 8080

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Check the information in registry    HKEY CURRENT USER SOFTWARE Microsoft VSCommon Keychain Accounts  and delete the related keys under Accounts section   Clear the cache in these paths     localappdata  Microsoft TeamTest  localappdata  Microsoft Team Foundation  localappdata  Microsoft VisualStudio  appdata  Roaming Microsoft VisualStudio   Hope this will work   Note  By doing this may clear all the cookies and caches and load the Visual Studio New

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I was also facing the same issue as you did  Here is what I did to solve  METHOD 1  Click the  Connect  icon just next to Home icon in Solution Explorer  Choose your project  gt  Right Click  gt  Connect  Try Check-in the project and this time it will happily proceed   This is what I tried  and I did not need to logout from any sessions from TFS or VS Account  METHOD 2  Just press refresh on the top of Team Explorer  Try to Check-in   This is also easy method  Hope this helps

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In VS 2015 it can be achieved by Team Explorer   Connect   Manage Connections and selecting the team project again  In case of there exist more than one account in VS  Team Explorer asks for which account to use to connect to the team project

[visual-studio-2012] Error TF30063: You are not authorized to access ... \DefaultCollection

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