Using TFS (Team Foundation Server) From Another Domain

TFS uses Active Directory to get user and user group properties.

To use TFS from a different Domain, the trusts need to be set up properly between the two domains, so that the TFS service account can retrieve user properties from the other domain.

However, reconfiguring a large network is not always an option.

So a way around this is:

1. create a user for every developer in the same domain as TFS. We will call this domain TfsDomain.

2. developers who work in a different domain from TFS, should run Visual Studio under their TfsDomain account, using the Windows runas command.

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