More on TF215106: Access denied from the TFS API after upgrade from 2012 to 2013

calendarNov 6, 2013 · 1 min read · Uncategorised  ·
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In my previous post I thought I had fixed my problems with TF215106 errors

"TF215106: Access denied. TYPHOONTFS\TFSService needs Update build information permissions for build definition ClassLibrary1.Main.Manual in team project Scrum to perform the action. For more information, contact the Team Foundation Server administrator."}

Turns out I had not, acutally I not idea why it worked for a while! There could well be an API version issue, but I had to actually also missed I needed to do what the error message said!

If you check MSDN, it tells you how to check the permissions for a given build; on checking I saw that the update build information permission was not set for the build in question.

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Once I set it for the domain account my service was running as, everything worked as expected.

All I can assume that there is a change from TSF 2012 to 2013 over defaulting the permission as I have not needed to set it explicitly in the past