Acces refused while trying to load a task into VSO using the TFS Cross Platform command line interface

Question

Attempting to execute the following command:

tfx build tasks upload --task-path./SwapDeploymentSlots

will result in:

Error: request failed: denied (403) - access denied. [Username] requires Permission Management to complete the action. Contact your Team Foundation Server administrator for more information.

The user is a member of the Agent Pool Administrators group, as required by the TFS-CLI documentation.

Any ideas on how to solve this?

Answer 1

Try adding the user to the Agent Pool Administrators group by completing the following steps:

• Open your VSO account ( https://xxxxxx.visualstudio.com/ ) from the web portal.
• Click the "Settings" button to open the "Control Panel".
• Click the "Manage Security and Grouping" link.
• Search for "[Agent Pools] \ Agent Pool Administrators" and select it on the "Security" tab.
• Click the Add button on the Members tab to add the user to the group.

Answer 2

In TFS 2017 Update1 (installed in place), the steps are slightly different.

• Open the server web portal.
• Click "Settings" by clicking the transfer button in the upper blue menu.
• Click on the menu item "Agent Pools".
• Select the agent pool name that you want to process from the tree on the left.
• Click the "Add" button to add a user (or select an existing one if one has already been added).
• Click on the "Role" cell of the grid, then select "Administrator" from the drop-down menu.
• Repeat steps 4,5,6 for the agent pool you need.