Can't Log in to Exalate for Azure DevOps using PAT

Problem

Can not log in to the Exalate admin dashboard using Personal Access Token.

Credentials provided are not correct

Cause

• Problem with permissions, required by Exalate to communicate with the Azure DevOps instance. 
• The PAT is invalid

Solution

Make sure your user is part of the 'Project Collection Administrators' permission group (under organization settings -> Permissions)

You can validate the permissions with Postman using the Basic Auth with your PAT as a username and password:

GET YOUR_AZURE_URL/_apis/permissions/11238e09-49f2-40c7-94d0-8f0307204ce4/15?alwaysAllowAdministrators=true

Authenticate with Basic Auth using your PAT token as username and password.

Exalate Proxy User needs to have permission to read, write, and manage Work Items and be a Project Collection Administrator on the Organization level.

Check Exalate for Azure DevOps: Proxy user permissions for more details.