Adding yourself to the list of valid user in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

On Monday I blogged about Visual Studio 2005 Team System and Team Foundation Server, and decided to continue today. That is, once you've just installed Team Foundation Server (TFS), and try to connect to a newly-created Team Project from Team Explorer, you might get the following error:

The request failed with HTTP status 403: TF53011:
VIRTUAL-W2K3\Jani Järvinen is not a licensed user.

On the screen, this looks like this (note the error in showing special characters):

To fix this error, you will need to add your own user account to the Team Foundation Server Installed User's group under Team Foundation Server Settings. To do this, in Team Explorer, right-click your server, and choose the command Team Foundation Server Settings/Group Membership:

In the Global Groups dialog box, select the [SERVER]\Team Foundation Server Licensed Users, and then click Properties:

Finally, a dialog box is displayed showing the users that belong to this group. By default, only the local Administrator and the "TFSSETUP" user accounts are part of this group. To fix the problem, just add your account to the list:

Note that if you are using Team Foundation Server Workgroup Edition, only five (5) users can be added to the list, not more. In any case, adding yourself to the list will solve the issue.