Restore all security groups of the TFS 2010 collections after applying the TFSConfig repair command

Question

We've lost our TFS and domain servers. TFS was configured to use domain accounts. We could resotre only the TFS Project Collection databases and thanks to the "TFSConfig repair" command, we finally attached them to a new TFS instance.

But all of the default security groups for repaired projects are lost (except the administrators). For example we don't have "Contributors" group anymore.

Now we want to restore these standard groups. Maybe it's possible to fix it by applying the default TFS "project proccess templates" on all existing projects and collections again.

Is there any way to address it?

Answer 1

As you lost the Domain server you have to follow the Move User and Service Accounts chapter of the "Move Team Foundation Server from One Environment to Another" procedure.

By the way, there's no such feature as reapplying a process template on an existing Team Project.

Have you tried to recreate at least one group that you lost? Only to know if that is working (maybe TFS will return an error because the group still exists in the database but it's not shown for whatever reason) ?

One last thing: check the TFS Scheduler Windows Service is running on the TFS Server and look for errors in the Windows Event Log.