Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

Administration
• Ensure that users are in the correct security groups.
• Create a report dashboard to view project status and health metrics in one
location.
Ensure That Users Are in the Correct Security Groups
If you want a user to be able to deploy reports, make sure that the user is assigned the
report server’s Content Manager Role. The Content Manager role is a predefined Report
Services role for users who deploy and manage reports and data source connections on
the Web server. For a Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Team Foundation Server (TFS)
user to be able to deploy reports to the report server, the user must be a member of this
role.
To add a user to the Content Manager role
1. Open the report site for the project. In Team Explorer, right-click the Reports entry
for your team project and then select Show Report Site.
2. At the top of the window, click the Properties tab.
3. At the left side of the window, click Security.
4. Click New Role Assignment.
5. In the Group or user name: field, enter the name of the user or group you want to
add to the Content Manager role
6. Select the Content Manager check box.
7. Click OK.
Additional Resources
• For more information about the Content Manager role, see “Content Manager Role”
at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms159693(SQL.90).aspx
• For more information about security roles in the data tier, see “Securing Access
Through Analysis Services” at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/enus/library/ms174839.aspx
• For more information about security roles in the application tier, see “Securing
Reporting Services” at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms157198.aspx
Create a Report Dashboard to View Project Status and Health Metrics in
One Location
A reporting dashboard allows you and your team to quickly access important project
information on a single page. The default Microsoft Office SharePoint® portal page for
Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF) for Agile Software Development (MSF Agile)
projects contains a single report as well as links to others. To create a single repository
for project information, you can modify the portal page for MS Agile or MSF for
CMMI® (MS CMMI) projects to include as many reports on the page as you want.
For example, a useful reporting dashboard could contain the following reports: