How can I change the default credentials used to connect to Visual Studio Online TFSPreview when loading Visual Studio up

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When I load Visual Studio 2012 up  it will attempt to connect to the previous TFS server that it was connected to   On one of my machines  that also happens to connect to occasionally TFS2008 and TFS2010 servers  always seems to default to completely the wrong account for connecting to Visual Studio Online  tfspreview   and if I were to try and get the latest version  it ll give an error of the form      Microsoft Visual Studio      Source Control Explorer      TF204017  The operation cannot be completed because the user  Account Service   my tfs server   does not have one or more required permissions  Use  for workspace  my workspace   my live id        OK      How can I influence Visual Studio 2012 to default to the correct credentials  rather than a seemingly fictional Account Service one

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After failing with cleaning the Credentials from the Manager and clearing the VS cache  consider to repair Visual Studio from the Visual Studio Installer  VS2017   I personally found no other solution working

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i found another solution    start session in TEAM go to SOURCE CONTROL and select WORKSPACE  mark in red   then Add new Workspace    why  because you dont work in the same workspace whey you change your account in TFS  i dont know why  and ready to MAP your project again    Its 100  guaranteed to work

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For Windows 8   Control Panel -   Search for  Credentials Manager -  Check Web Credentials  this worked for me

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You need to remove TFS credentials from Windows Vault to clear and force to ask new TFS credentials in Visual Studio   Go to Control Panel  Start -  Control Panel   Click User Accounts   or User Accounts and Family Safety- User Accounts in Windows 7 Machine  Click Credential Manager  or Manage your credentials  In Credential Manager page  you can see the two type of credentials     i  Windows Credentials    ii  Generic Credentials    5 Click on two credentials modify link   click the link Remove from vault to remove stored TFS credentials   Now  When you login into Visual Studio you will be asked to give credentials to connect TFS   Note  Don t forgot to uncheck the option Remember my credentials to force to ask credentials for every TFS connections

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You can also try to reset visual studio setting   Open Visual Studio Command Prompt Enter command Devenv  ResetSettings   It will remove already saved TFS account and ask for credentials

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I had a very similiar problem as I was not able to connect to TFS with my own credentials  Turned out that the user who had created the image  I was using Hyper-V  stored his account in Credential Manager  There was no way to change this in Visual Studio  To solve the issue  I opened Credential Manager in Control Panel and edited the Generic Credentials to be my own account  I closed and opened Visual Studio 2012  and reconnected to TFS  It prompted me for my credentials  but it connected with my account from then on   hope this helps  sivilian

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I tried opening my Credential Manager but could not find any credentials in there that has any relation to my TFS account   So what I did instead I logout of my hotmail account in Internet Explorer and then clear all my Internet Explorer cookies and stored password as detailed in this blog  Changing TFS credentials in Visual Studio 2012    After clearing out the cookies and password  restart IE and then relogin to your hotmail  or windows live account     Then start Visual Studio and try to reconnect to TFS  you should be prompted for a credential now   Note  A reader said that you do not have to clear out all IE cookies  just these 3 cookies  but I didn t test this   cookie  login live com  cookie  visualstudio com  cookie  tfs app visualstudio com

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I ran into this same issue  Someone had logged onto my computer and used their TFS credentials  I m running VS2012  Windows 7  and the network admins have Credential Manager disabled   Run this command from a command window with the same user your running visual studio as    rundll32 exe keymgr dll KRShowKeyMgr   You ll see a popup with all your stored credentials  Remove the one for your TFS server   Note   You will need to restart visual studio because it caches the tfs credentials

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