We have an Azure DevOps environment(online dev.azure.com/aaaa). Here we have multiple projects. Each project has multiple users.
I would like to avoid users from project A being able to mention users from project B due to privacy.
Is this possible?
There is the concept of "project scoped users".
To limit the identity selection to just those users and groups added to a project, perform the following procedure for your organization and projects.
Enable the Limit user visibility and collaboration to specific projects preview feature for the organization.
Add the users to your project(s) as described in Add users to a project or team. Users added to a team are automatically added to the project and team group.
Open Organizations Settings>Security>Permissions and choose Project-Scoped Users. Choose the Members tab. Add all users and groups that you want to scope to the project(s) you've added them to.
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I want to set up a portfolio where all projects names will be my epics and every individual project will have their own space where they will manage thier pbis..now my question is how can I control the user access in my parent space ..like what access and roles I should give to each pm in the parent epic spac
For each project that you create, the system creates the followings project-level groups. These groups are assigned project-level permissions.
The full name of each of these groups is [{project name}]{group name}. For example, the contributors group for a project called "My Project" is [My Project]\Contributors.
For your PM, they should be assigned Project Administrators permission.
Project Administrators
Has permissions to administer all aspects of teams and project,
although they can't create team projects.
Assign to users who manage user permissions, create or edit teams,
modify team settings, define area an iteration path, or customize work
item tracking.
Members of the Project Administrators group are granted permissions to perform the following tasks:
Add and remove users from project membership
Add and remove custom security groups from a project
Add and administer all project teams and team-related features
Edit project level permission ACLs
Edit event subscriptions (email or SOAP) for teams or project-level
events.
As for Access levels, it grant or restrict access to select web portal features. Access levels enable administrators to provide their user base access to the features they need and only pay for those features. They should as least owe Basic access level.
For more detail info, please refer our official doc here:
Project-level permissions
About access levels
I am trying to understand the complete purpose of organisations in ADO. What I have understood is that an organisation groups projects, defines resources, extensions, billing, etc. that is related to the organization.
I am struggling with the user part of an organization. I can add users to an org giving them an access level. But I can also add users directly to a project without adding them to an organization at all.
What is then the consequence of this? Is then access level by default stakeholder for those users?
Thank you
You can add people to projects instead of to your organization. Users
are automatically assigned Basic features if your organization has
seats available, or Stakeholder features if not.
For this please refer to the Note of this document.
When you add members to projects and you don't have billing set up, Basic access is automatically assigned, until you run out of seats available. When you add members to projects and you do have billing set up, Basic access is assigned only if your default access level is set to Basic. Otherwise, project members are assigned Stakeholder permissions.
You can refer to Add members to projects or teams for details.
If you add an user to a project that user will be added to the organisation as well. At least when the said user first logs in. The user will get the access level you define as default.
Our main Azure DevOps Organization is linked to our Azure AD. We need to invite customers to specific projects as stakeholder only, and with this, they are added as external users in our AD. We found that within a customer project also, all other external users are visible, e.g. via mention with # anywhere in the text or assignment drop-down, although these do not have access to that project. Our only workaround so far is to create new non AD linked customer specific organizations, but this is really not the right way to go (licencing, management etc.)
Is there any option to prevent this and to restrict visibility to only those users, which are part of a project (or planned)?
I tested and found the same issue as you said. It is by design, you can raise a problem in the Developer Community
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/spaces/21/index.html
Besides, since there is a workaround that works now, continue on this basis. You can create different AAD for the customer specific organizations, then add the customers to these AAD. Thus, these users will be invisible because they are in different AAD organizations.
Is it possible to customize columns in Azure DevOps --> Organization Settings --> Users page. Currently we have Name, Extensions, Access Level, Last Access. I need to add another column to show whether the user have code read-only access or contributor access.
This page can't be customized as fas as i know. What you want can't be displayed on that site if you have more then one project anyway. If you want to see this organizationwide a better way would be to organize the users in "Organization settings -> Permissions" in groups for readers and contributors
I need to transfer a repository from a user account to an organization the user is a member of. Per GitHUb's docs, I need to make the user account an admin of the organization first.
GitHub's docs describe the different levels of access to an organization, but I can't find out how to actually change a user's level of access to an organisation.
How can I make the organization member an admin?
Access levels in GitHub are configured per Team inside the Organization.
Log into GitHub.
Switch your account context to the organization using the dropdown near the top-left of the screen:
Click on "View organization":
Click the Teams tab in the top navigation bar:
Decide whether you want to change the permissions of an existing team (and all of its members) or to create a new team for a single user.
If you are modifying an existing Team,
click on the Team name,
then click the gear icon at the top right,
then change the Team's access to Admin and
click Update.
If you are creating a new Team,
click the New Team button,
give the Team an appropriate name,
set its access to Admin and
click Create Team.
Team memberships have somewhat limited permissions scopes to individually named repositories.
If you want to set someone as an admin for the entire organization:
Navigate to the Organization > People
Identify the member you want to update and click on the settings cog
Set role to Owner
Update 2022: GitHub entitlements can help you define an IAM (Identity and Access Management) complete with audits.
2017: Note that since June 2017, you can apply an Admin access right to a sub-team (instead of one giant unique team as before)
See "Nested teams add depth to your team structure":
Child teams inherit their parent's access permissions, so repository permissions and #mentioning among nested teams work from top to bottom.
If your team structure is Employees > Engineering > Application Engineering > Identity, granting Engineering write access to a repository means Application Engineering and Identity also get that access.
So that is another way to assign a user admin right: make him/her part of a sub-sub team called "admins" within an organization.
Official GitHub Documentation: Nested Teams.