Team Foundation Server 2008 requires administrators to manage user and group permissions in three locations.  Users must be added to the appropriate permissions in TFS, SharePoint, and SQL Server Reporting Services.  Doing this manually is cumbersome.  The TFS Admin Tool is a free add-on to Team Foundation Server that makes this process much easier.

I was installing the latest version 1.4 on Windows Server 2008 and received the message “Please wait while the installer finishes determining your disk space requirements.”  when I clicked on Next after the EULA.

I had a hunch it was UAL and I needed to do “Run As Administrator” to make this work.  Unfortunately with MSIs there is no “Run As Administrator” option in the context menu.  To work around this I opened an “Administrator Command Prompt”.  Here I ran MsiExec against the Msi and it worked fine.

C:\Users\Administrator>msiexec /i c:\users\Administrator\Desktop\TFSAdminToolSetup.msi

Mike