{"id":53,"date":"2014-09-15T09:54:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T09:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/buckh\/2014\/09\/15\/how-to-provide-non-admins-access-to-activity-and-job-pages\/"},"modified":"2014-09-15T09:54:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T09:54:58","slug":"how-to-provide-non-admins-access-to-activity-and-job-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/how-to-provide-non-admins-access-to-activity-and-job-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"How to provide non-admins access to activity and job pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we shipped TFS 2012, we introduced a feature in the web UI that makes it easy to look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/buckh\/archive\/2013\/03\/30\/how-to-see-activity-and-job-history-in-tfs-2012.aspx\">activity and job history<\/a>. In the post I mentioned that you had to be an admin to be able to see the information. A question about this came up last week, and Sean Lumley, one of the folks who built the feature, pointed out there is a specific permission for this.<\/p>\n<p>The permission is called Troubleshoot and it is in the Diagnostic security namespace. These are not exposed in the web UI for setting permissions, so you have to use the <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/ms400715.aspx\">tfssecurity.exe<\/a> tool.<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s an example command line that gives a TFS group called &ldquo;diag test&rdquo; the permission to see this info. Anyone added to the &ldquo;diag test&rdquo; group would then have access to these pages.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>   <font face=\"Courier New\">C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 12.0\\Tools&gt;TFSSecurity.exe \/a+ Diagnostic Diagnostic Troubleshoot n:&#8221;diag test&#8221; ALLOW \/server:http:\/\/server:8080\/tfs<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow me on Twitter at <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tfsbuck\"><em>twitter.com\/tfsbuck<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we shipped TFS 2012, we introduced a feature in the web UI that makes it easy to look at the activity and job history. In the post I mentioned that you had to be an admin to be able to see the information. A question about this came up last week, and Sean Lumley, [&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":[12,13],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tfs-2012","tag-tfs-2013"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>When we shipped TFS 2012, we introduced a feature in the web UI that makes it easy to look at the activity and job history. In the post I mentioned that you had to be an admin to be able to see the information. A question about this came up last week, and Sean Lumley, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","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=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/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=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}