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I am trying to sign out of TFS from Visual Studio 2017. I am connected to two VSTS online accounts. Here are the lists of the things I did:

  • Removing my username from Visual Studio => Help => Register Product => All Accounts
  • Deleting the entire entries in Credential Manager (all items from Web and Windows)
  • Removing entries from TeamExplorer.config
  • Using Team => Disconnect from Team Foundation Server

And when I open Visual Studio, one VSTS account is still accessible, while the other is not. It's so frustrating and imposes an important security threat. Even using Connection Manager windows from Team Explorer I can see that no account exists there and no TFS URL is listed there. But I can still do everything with one of my accounts.

Any ideas to help me sign out?

Update: I don't login anywhere, but this entry keeps coming back in Credential Manager:

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mohammad rostami siahgeli
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If it is VSTS account, you should be able to sign out by the steps below:

  1. Click on your profile in the up-right corner of VS.
  2. Click "Account Settings".
  3. Remove the credential that you have already signed in.

And you can also clear the .IdentityService folder under %localappdata%. VS2017 stores VSTS Account credential there.

Eddie Chen - MSFT
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  • Thank you for answering, but the *Account Settings* page you mentioned is just the same page as *Help => Register Product* and as I mentioned it doesn't work. Also removing `.IdentityService` folder didn't solve the problem. – mohammad rostami siahgeli Sep 09 '18 at 06:15
  • @mohammadrostamisiahgeli Check if this thread helps: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47188210/clear-stored-tfs-credentials-in-visual-studio-2017 – Andy Li-MSFT Sep 13 '18 at 01:51