Do all users in [BuiltIn] Administrators need licensing

Question

I have a large domain group that has several users that are all local admins on our application tier server. Since they are local admins on that machine they are added to the [BuiltIn] Administrators. These users never use TFS. Are they required to have a TFS CAL or MSDN subscription?  If so how can I remove them without removing the admin privileges from the group.

Answer 1

I have a large domain group that has several users that are all local admins on our application tier server.

hi Shane

this is not a very good idea.

why do they need admin access to the TFS App Tier ?

if they're only administrating the server than they don't need a TFS CAL.

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Answer 2

They don't need access.  They are part of a company wide AD group that has admin on most machines and servers for support purposes.  We are now looking to limit admin access.

Answer 3

hi Shane

if you're using TFS 2013 or TFS 2015 than you can control the license using Access Levels and setting default level to StakeHolder which don't require a TFS CAL license. all other users which do require access to TFS need a higher level

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