I'm trying to connect from Team Explorer Everywhere command line client on Windows to a Team Foundation Service project at visualstudio.com, but I get "access denied" messages.
The username and password I'm passing are definitely correct, and are the email and password from my microsoft live ID used to create the account. I have no problems accessing the service through the website, or via Visual Studio 2012 on a different machine.
tf workspace /new /server:https://<something>.visualstudio.com/defaultcollection
Username: example@microsoft.com
Password: ********
Any ideas? One thought I had was that maybe the '@' character in the e-mail was causing the username to be interpreted as a Windows domain, or that maybe SSL wasn't being used correctly?
You cannot authenticate with a Live ID using the Team Explorer Everywhere command-line client. We cannot raise a web browser from the client and capture the Live ID authentication tokens in a secure way across platforms.
Instead, you need to set up alternate credentials as described at https://tfs.visualstudio.com/en-us/home/news/2012/aug-27/ .