{"id":2651,"date":"2013-01-09T10:59:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T10:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2013\/01\/09\/renaming-your-team-foundation-service-account\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T11:57:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:57:02","slug":"renaming-your-team-foundation-service-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/renaming-your-team-foundation-service-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Renaming your Team Foundation Service account"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019ve seen a growing cadre of people who created Team Foundation Service accounts and have decided they don\u2019t like the name they chose.\u00a0 So far this has required that you contact our support organization.\u00a0 They would have to delete the account and then you could create a new one with the name you wanted \u2013 clearly not a desirable approach.\u00a0 However, in November, of our 132 support cases, 118 of them (about 90%) were to do precisely this.<\/p>\n

In December, we created a PowerShell script to enable our support team to rename accounts rather than do the delete\/recreate path.<\/p>\n

Today, we have bundled that logic into the web UI and enabled a self-serve way for account owners to rename their accounts.<\/p>\n

You can do this by clicking on the little gear (settings) icon in the upper right of just about any page in your account.<\/p>\n

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Click on \u201cControl Panel\u201d in the upper left.<\/p>\n

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Then click on the settings tab.\u00a0 You\u2019ll see your current account url towards the bottom.<\/p>\n

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You can then click Change and you\u2019ll get this rather alarming dialog which basically just says if anyone is currently using the account while you rename it, it\u2019s probably going to break whatever they are doing so you should rename it while the account isn\u2019t being used.\u00a0 You can then type a new account name and click Save Changes.\u00a0 The UI feedback isn\u2019t great right now \u2013 The Save Changes button is greyed while it works and that\u2019s about all you\u2019ll notice.\u00a0 I\u2019ll log a bug to make that better.\u00a0 After a few seconds though, your account will be renamed and you can access it using the new url \u2013 the old url will no longer work.<\/p>\n

For now, you can only change the account name portion of the url.\u00a0 It\u2019s always \u201csomething.visualstudio.com\u201d.\u00a0 At some point in the future, we may enable you to have more control over the domain name too.<\/p>\n

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Thanks.\u00a0 Hopefully this will ease the process for lots of people who want to rename their accounts.<\/p>\n

No, unfortunately you still can\u2019t rename Team Projects.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t forgotten that that\u2019s also a common request \"Image<\/a><\/p>\n

Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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