I wanted to create some Sub Teams under Contributors on a new Team Project but I was getting the Red X on my Team Members node even though all my other Team Projects were working fine. I tried changing my personal settings, edited the PersonalSettings.config file, I even discovered the TeamTrackerEnabled and TeamTrackerHidden registry settings.
In one of those ‘I don’t believe the answer could be this simple because Microsoft wouldn’t make that kind of mistake, but I’m going to try it anyway‘ moments, I theorised that the 105 people in my Contributors group was too many for the power tool to cope with, so I started creating my Sub Teams through the Group Security Dialogs.
After I had created my first Sub Team and moved a handful of people in there I hit the refresh on the context menu – ta da, problem solved!
Hmmm, could it be that there is a limit of 100 ungrouped contributors before the power tool fails? In this reporters opinion – Yes!
Notes:
You’ll find the in the PersonalSettings.config file in C:\Users\<User>\Application Data\Microsoft\Team Foundation Server.
The registry settings can be added as strings at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\TeamFoundation\Power Tools
When set to False, TeamTrackerEnabled disables the node, TeamTrackerHidden disables the settings context menu
