What permission is required to create a Service Hook in Visual Team Team Services?

Question

In Visual Studio Team Services, on the Hooks of Services tab, some members of our project team receive a message that says, "You do not have sufficient rights to view or configure the subscription."

What permission or group must be assigned to create a Service Hook for this project?

Answer 1

You need to add the user to the Project Administrators or to the project administrators group.

Answer 2

For some reason, in RTM TFS 2017, some project project administrators can create Service Hooks, and some cannot.

I had to run the following from the tfssecurity.exe file:

tfssecurity /a+ /collection:[TFS_Collection_URL] ServiceHooks PublisherSecurity/[Project_GUID] EditSubscriptions n:"[User_ID]" ALLOW tfssecurity /a+ /collection:[TFS_Collection_URL] ServiceHooks PublisherSecurity/[Project_GUID] ViewSubscriptions n:"[User_ID]" ALLOW 

Additional Information:

• Rest API when getting Project GUIDS
• MS TFS Service Hook Q / A
• MSDN Forums: What Permissions to Configure to Subscribe