My Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) environment is automatically connecting to Team Foundation Server (TFS) as another user. What’s going on? The default behavior when you connect to TFS is to use Windows Authentication and therefore use your current identity when authenticating. If at some point, you connected to your TFS application tier via an Uniform Naming Convention (UNC) path, the operating system may have prompted you to specify credentials and gave you the option to store the password ... [More]

While setting up Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) virtual machines (VM) for our demos or customization projects one of our requirements is to be able to run the VM while not connected to a physical network. We therefore have a tendency to use the Microsoft Loopback Adapter as one of the network adapters and configure Internet Connection Sharing to provide Internet access when connected to a network. I personally use a third party firewall so I have a tendency to disable the built in Windows Fir... [More]