Connecting to Team Foundation Server (TFS) with proxy authentication

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Alex Angas picture Alex Angas · Jun 17, 2009 · Viewed 12.3k times · Source

Yesterday I created a new project in Codeplex. I created a connection from Visual Studio to the TFS server I was assigned and uploaded my solution successfully. Today I'm trying to connect again to the Codeplex TFS server to work on the solution. When I try to open it, I get the error:

Team Foundation Server https://tfs06.codeplex.com/ does not exist or is not accessible at this time.

The remote server returned an error: (407) Proxy Authentication Required.

The corporate environment I'm using does use proxy authentication but this wasn't an issue yesterday. Any ideas on why it worked then and how to make it work now?

Answer

Martin Woodward picture Martin Woodward · Jun 17, 2009

Do you want to try refreshing the start page in Visual Studio (View, Other Windows, Start Page)? Sounds bizarre but the following forum post suggest that this might work...

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfssetup/thread/c46afd34-09ea-4505-a34e-b378cb35138d

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