Issue [ TFS 2013 Preview ] TF400654: Unable to configure Planning Tools
Explains how to resolve TF400654 errors in TFS 2013 Preview by updating process templates to ensure custom fields exist in all required work item …
TL;DR; Explains how to resolve TF50309 permission errors when configuring features in Team Foundation Server 2012/2013 by assigning the ‘Manage process template’ permission.
You may get a TF50309 when configuring features in Team Foundation Server 2013 and you are unable to complete the configuration.
TF50309: The following account does not have sufficient permissions to complete the operation: The following permissions are needed to perform this operation: Manage process template.
If you are an Team Project Administrator you would expect to be able to configure the new features for your Team Project but you are prompted for the ‘Manage process template’ permission. This permission is a collection level permission and is grated automatically to Project Collection Administrators but not to Project Admins.
Figure: Manage process template permission
You need to configuring features in Team Foundation Server 2013 with an account that has this permission.
The first solution is to have someone who is a Project Collection Administrator do the configuration. This would be awkward and boring if you have 200 Team Projects, but for one a few this is the simplest and least invasive solution.
If however you have tens or hundreds of Team Project and you need to liaise with each group of users for training for the new features you may want to take a slower approach. I want to be able to delegate this permission out so that I can send an email too each of the Project owners and have them do the training and upgrade at a time that suits them.
Figure: Create a Project Upgraders TFS Group
You need to create a new TFS Group at the Team Collection level that will contain each of the “owners” or “upgraders” for the individual Team Projects.
Figure: Set the Manage process template permission only
Now that we have a group we can select it and set individual permissions. In this case we only need the manage process template permission that will allow this user to complete the configuration of the Team Project to enable the new features.
Figure: Add users to the new group
Now we need to add each user that we want to have this permission. It would be awesome if we could add a Team Project group in here… you know.. like the “Project Administrators” group but “[ScrumSandbox]Project Administrators” fails to resolve. Sad, but the workaround is to just add the users we want to have permission..
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