I have tried many ways to add a domain user into Team Foundation Server 2008 without any luck. I keep getting TF53011 error. It seems the security settings on TFS user interface are useless. The Valid User group does not help to make a user "VALID" or say "Licensed".

After Google search for 20 minutes, the command line below eventually did the trick. As I said before Team Foundation Server is garbage. Can you imagine that you have to achieve the most common operation by a command line?

TfsSecurity.exe /server:YourTFSServerName /g+ n:"[Server]\Team Foundation Licensed Users" n:"DomainName\UserName"

Note: You need to keep [Server] as it is without any change.

Our developer has found some features failed on the IE 8 running on Windows XP. We are looking into the issues and working on the fixes. But it is good to know that some scripts work on Vista/Windows7+IE8, Firefox, Safari and Chrome but not on XP+IE8.

Ok we have found the javascript that works in IE8 on Vista and Windows 7 but not on XP. It is the code below.
document.getElementById(id).offsetLeft

We have to change it to $("#"+id).position().left

The theme selected by the user is saved in the ThemeName attribute of the SystemUser entity, therefore ThemeName column in the SystemUser table. The default value of this field is Lightness.

When user select a theme in the Theme Picker dialog, the page will be redirect to http://www.primeobjects.com/Default.aspx?Theme=[ThemeName]. This will change the theme and at the same time change the user profile.

Announcing the Microsoft AJAX CDN - ScottGu's Blog

I recently upgraded my machine from Vista Home to Windows 7 Home and since then have been having issues connecting to any machines on my network via remote desktop (MSTSC)