{"id":4793,"date":"2005-09-22T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/buckh\/2005\/09\/22\/active-directory-is-no-longer-required-with-team-foundation-beta-3\/"},"modified":"2005-09-22T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-22T08:48:00","slug":"active-directory-is-no-longer-required-with-team-foundation-beta-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/active-directory-is-no-longer-required-with-team-foundation-beta-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Active Directory is no longer required with Team Foundation Beta 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a lot of requests from folks wanting to use TFS without Active Directory.&nbsp; Since several <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jeffbe\/archive\/2005\/09\/20\/471855.aspx#comments\">questions and answers<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jeffbe\/archive\/2005\/09\/22\/472626.aspx#comments\">comments<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/jeffbe\/\">Jeff Beehler&#8217;s blog<\/a>&nbsp;dealt with this, I thought it&#8217;s worth mentioning in a post that TFS beta 3 supports workgroup installations, and Active Directory is not required in that configuration.<\/p>\n<p>[Update 09\/22\/05]&nbsp; Doug&#8217;s comment below addresses another long-standing issue: &#8220;Additionally, beta 3 now supports Windows 2000 Active Directories as well as the previously supported Windows Server 2003 version.&#8221;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been a lot of requests from folks wanting to use TFS without Active Directory.&nbsp; Since several questions and answers in comments on Jeff Beehler&#8217;s blog&nbsp;dealt with this, I thought it&#8217;s worth mentioning in a post that TFS beta 3 supports workgroup installations, and Active Directory is not required in that configuration. [Update 09\/22\/05]&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":10268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,8],"class_list":["post-4793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-source-control","tag-team-foundation"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>There have been a lot of requests from folks wanting to use TFS without Active Directory.&nbsp; Since several questions and answers in comments on Jeff Beehler&#8217;s blog&nbsp;dealt with this, I thought it&#8217;s worth mentioning in a post that TFS beta 3 supports workgroup installations, and Active Directory is not required in that configuration. [Update 09\/22\/05]&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}