get to "Manage Connections" in TFS when your TFS in the cloud seems to be offline

I cannot seem to duplicate the error I had to be sure I am typing up the right thing in this blog posting, but what I think I did was go to the Team Explorer pane in Visual Studio 2017, then click the downwards pointing arrow at the right of Home at the left top, and then I either picked it here/there or I picked Settings or something first.