How do I undo check out in TFS for former employees

Question

Hi

On our TFS source control server, a lot of source files are checked out by people, which are not employed any more.

Is there a central way where I can undo check out on all files in TFS?

I'm not even sure that they exists in Active Directory anymore.

Answer 1

There are command line tools that can do this.

However, I find the sidekicks tool much easier to use (it is free and stable.)

You can undo check out easily. There's much more in there that makes it well worth the installation.

Answer 2

Best thing to do is to delete their workspace using with the command line tool (tf.exe) or the TFS Sidekicks from Attrice.

See the following blog post I did on the topic when it happened to me, and I detailed the command line version:

http://www.woodwardweb.com/vsts/unlocking_files.html