After an oops with creating a team project in TFS 2008 with an incorrect name, I wanted to cleanup by removing the team project with the incorrect name. However, someone else created the project and every time I tried to delete the team project using the tfsdeleteproject.exe command line tool, I got the error message:
"You are not authorized to access <machine>."
Uhhh, what? I'm a domain admin in this domain. How can this be?
After fumbling around a bit, I had a hunch and checked permissions on the TFS Team Project. Sure enough, I had permissions on the TFS project, but I had no access to the Sharepoint site or the Reporting services reports. After using the TFS Admin tool to grant myself permissions to these resources, I was able to delete the Team Project successfully. The tool was failing to verify I had permissions to these; it would have been helpful to get this feedback rather than the generic "you are not allowed to access this server" message.