Desperate: Add a user to the Team Foundation Administrators group

I dropped the BUILTIN\Administrators group from Team Foundation Administrators group and now I can't do anything in TFS. I was trying to exclude all the administrators of the box from showing up in Work Item Assigned To field.

I'm a member of the Administrators group on the box. How can I add myself back to the Team Foundation Administrators group?

Edit: I tried tfssecurity.exe but also got the same error: TF50309: You do not have sufficent permissions to perform this operation.

[508 byte] By [BobTheBuild] at [2008-2-20]

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# 1

Are there any other members in Team Foundation Administrators group? I guess the only option you have is to logon with credentials of any account that still is in that group, and fix the situation.

Thanks,

Alex

AliakseiBaturytski-MSFT at 2007-9-9 >

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# 2

The only one left in there is the [SERVER]\Service Accounts group. I don't think I can login as one of the service accounts?

BobTheBuild at 2007-9-9 >

# 3

You could logon as one of this group's members.

AliakseiBaturytski-MSFT at 2007-9-9 >

# 4

Thanks a lot. In my panic mode I was thinking the service accounts were the local service, network service etc. Then I realized it's the TFS group, which has the domain account. I logged in as that and was able to add myself back into the group. It really freaked me out for a while.

Okay, so if every user/group is ever removed from [SERVER]\Team Foundation Administrators group, is there any way to add someone back in? Or you have to reinstall TFS?

Thanks again.

BobTheBuild at 2007-9-9 >

# 5

I just checked - we explicitly prohibit removing all members from the Administrators group - at least one member must remain.

Thanks,

Alex

AliakseiBaturytski-MSFT at 2007-9-9 >

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