{"id":7793,"date":"2006-01-25T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2006\/01\/25\/team-foundation-server-without-active-directory\/"},"modified":"2019-02-14T17:53:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:53:27","slug":"team-foundation-server-without-active-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/team-foundation-server-without-active-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Foundation Server without Active Directory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Ken recently asked the question:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>&#8220;Do we have documentation that I can review and send to a customer on provisioning users in a VSTF setup with no AD integration?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\"><span>The answer (from our soon-to-be-released-and-therefore-preliminary-documentation):<br><\/span><span><span class=\"MsoCommentReference\">&#8230;Managing <\/span>Team Foundation Server<span class=\"MsoCommentReference\"> in a workgroup environment is possible but can present some challenges. <\/span>Active Directory environments are recommended for most Team Foundation Server deployments. If Team Foundation Server is to be deployed in a workgroup, it should only be deployed in workgroups with a very limited number of users and computers. See the article <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/vstsue\/articles\/517603.aspx\">Managing Team Foundation&nbsp;Server in a Workgroup<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"ltr\"><span>Thanks for the question Ken.<br>-Lisa<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken recently asked the question: &#8220;Do we have documentation that I can review and send to a customer on provisioning users in a VSTF setup with no AD integration?&#8221; The answer (from our soon-to-be-released-and-therefore-preliminary-documentation):&#8230;Managing Team Foundation Server in a workgroup environment is possible but can present some challenges. Active Directory environments are recommended for most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Ken recently asked the question: &#8220;Do we have documentation that I can review and send to a customer on provisioning users in a VSTF setup with no AD integration?&#8221; The answer (from our soon-to-be-released-and-therefore-preliminary-documentation):&#8230;Managing Team Foundation Server in a workgroup environment is possible but can present some challenges. Active Directory environments are recommended for most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}