Weird issue in TFS - Source Control Explorer not loading

Question

I have this weird issue in one of my colleague's computer. She can connect to our TFS Server and view the projects (and tick the checkbox for them), but the Source Control Explorer doesn't load the projects.

We initially thought it was some problem with the installation but we had another person log in the computer and the Source Control Explorer loaded the projects. We then had her log in in another Visual Studio installation in another computer - one which is confirmed working - but it didn't load for her.

She can connect to the server fine and she sees the projects upon connecting so its not privileges. Its just the Source Control Explorer won't load.

Answer 1

According to your situation, one account works well, another can't. Most likely this is a permissions issue. Please use TFS Permission Command to list your colleague's permissions of the projects.

Example: tf permission $/Project1 /collection:http://xxx:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection

Note: Deny trumps allow, so if a user belongs to two groups, and one of them has a specific permission set to deny, that user will not be able to perform tasks that require that permission even if they belong to a group that has that permission set to allow.

Source: MSDN