TFS Version Control - pending changes

What to do if a team member leaves your team and still has pending changes on your project? Or, you suffer from a computer crash and you still had pending changes in your workspace on that computer? How to resolve those pending changes? Well, you will have lost those pending changes, but you can undo (unlock) those pending changes via the tf executable (%drive%\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common 7\IDE). As a global admin you can unlock specific items in the version control repository or you can also execute a delete of a workspace of a particular user. To use the lock command, you must have the Lock permission and to modify or delete an existing workspace, you must be the owner or have the global Administer workspaces permission ...

More info at MSDN :

• Lock Command
• Workspace Command