Unable to launch Visual Studio 2015 as a different user

Question

In order to limit my own destructive powers, I have two domain accounts, one for normal work and one for TFS admin stuff. For years I have been using the Run as differen

Answer 1

Try to run Visual Studio using this command instead:

runas /netonly /user:<account> devenv.exe

This should be enough to have Visual Studio under a context of another Windows user so it can connect to remote TFS with different credentials.

I'm running the SQL Server Management Studio as different user this way so I can manage remote SQL servers from different Windows domains.

PS: I tried to run Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 on Windows 10 version 1607 as different Windows account (standard user account without admin rights) and I got the same warning about the admin rights.

Answer 2

I have a tried solution which works for me which is I just make the run-as user account to the local administrators group of the computer you are running it from.