Adding a new account in Team Foundation Server

Question

I have a problem with adding of new accounts into Team Foundation Server 2010. I can add a new domain account into group Contributors of my team project without problems but after that I can't see it in the list of available accounts, for example, in the
drop down list 'Assigned To' at a work item page.
The added user can see the project, do check-in and check-out but he can't get access to the project work items. He has got an error
TF201072: A user or group could not be found. Verify that the users and groups used in your work item type definition have been added to Team Foundation Server.
Can anybody help me?

Answer 1

Hi Jovanny66,  
Thanks for your reply.
We don’t recommend to edit the TFS database(s) directly, it may cause the unknown issues.
To edit data in TFS Server, we should edit the data through VS, Web Access, TF command or TFS API. Unless there’s an official SQL Server script to edit TFS data which provided by MS.
As you edited the dbo.Constants table to update user’s data, but the user’s data also included in other 
TFS tables too, there’s the key connection relationships between these tables, if we update this user’s data in Web Access, TFS Sever will update this user’s data in all the related tables automatically. But you manually edited this user’s data only
in dbo.Constants table, so the edited data not included in other related tables, it may cause the current issue.
For the edit TFS database issue, you need contact a Professional Support Service at
http://support.microsoft.com/select/?target=assistance to gain more support on this case.  
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