Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) Credentials / Authentication
I recently had an issue in Visual Studio Team Suite/System in which I could no longer authenticate to the Team Foundation Server because I had changed my password on the domain on which the server was located. In a sense, my credentials had changed and I needed to have them reset in Visual Studio Team Suite as well. I tried everything, from clearing out my SSL certificates, deleting all of my network password, yet, VSTS still was storing those credentials somewhere. Even using devenv.exe /resetuserdata was not clearning the stored credentials for authentication to the TFS.
Finally, I learned (thanks to the MSDN forums), that there is a tool located within the Visual Studio 2005 SDK called CleanCreds.exe that will clean out all existing credentials within a client's installation of Visual Studio Team System. To get the tool, you have to download the whole SDK; however, I have also attached a copy of it to this message as well. Let me know if you have any questions.
The syntax is as follows:
CleanCreds https://vsteam.yourdomain.com
That should do it.
Shaun