Getting a service account for VSO with TFS Service Credential Viewer
Learn how to use TFS Service Credential Viewer to generate service accounts for Visual Studio Online, enabling secure, automated access without …
TL;DR; Tool for retrieving service credentials from Team Foundation Service (TFS Preview), enabling secure automated API access without manual credential management. Requires Team Explorer 2012.
If you want to connect to the Team Foundation Service (TFS Preview) API you are going to need some credentials in order to connect. That’s right, where do you expect to store your Live ID for connecting? Do you expect to add it to the windows credentials store? What about having the user manually add it? Both these options suck… so introducing the TFS Service Credential Viewer.
The TFS Service Credential Viewer connects to your Team Foundation Service account on http://tfspreview.com and using your credentials it retrieves credentials that you can use for an automated service to connect and authenticate correctly.
The following prerequisites are required:
If these components are already installed, you can launch the application now. Otherwise, click install below to install the prerequisites and run the application.
Once you have authenticated as a TFS Collection Administrator to your hosted TFS Collection we use the Access Control Service to provision a service identity that you can use for unattended connections to Team Foundation Service (TFS Preview).
Figure: A quick #1, #2 to get your credentials
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Video: How to get your credentials
If you are using Windows 8 Consumer Preview you will not get an automatic launch of the application due to an extra security check for applications that come from the internet.
If you encounter an exception when clicking “Connect” the most likely cause if that you do not have Team Explorer 2012 installed
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