I have a Project with only a project Wiki.
The rest of the features I have disabled.
I would like to make this Project available as read-only to the entire organization.
I tried adding a member to the 'readers' team, but there is no 'all users' group or 'entire organization' or something like that.
For this issue, you can add a group rule . Go to the Users tab of Organization settings, and then select Group rules. This view shows you all of your created group rules. Select Add a group rule.
Then just add users to this group rule.
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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.
In my Azure boards, I have a hierarchical structure of the areas. In the team settings, all teams have areas being set, just like described here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/plans/safe-configure-boards?view=azure-devops#configure-area-paths
Is there a way for one team to see only the area it is set to, but no other areas? Currently, in Boards>Work items any member of any team can see everything, even User stories that do not belong to his area. How can I restrict this?
Edit: it might be from Security options of an area, add a group to it and make work items invisible, see this screenshot from Azure documentation.
But, even as an admin, I don't have such option to add! Why is that?
The UI has changed. There is no add option in the security settings page now.
You can directly search for the Team Group in the Search box and change its permission settings. See below screenshot.
Okay, in addition to Levi's answer:
First, every new user added to a project is also added by default to one of this project's groups: Contributors, Readers, Admins. I'm not considering admins here.
If we want to make one area visible to only one team, we need to do the following:
Either modify Contributors or Readers rights so that the "View project-level information" is set to Deny, and then for each new user, add it to a team and for that team set this option to Allow for the area needed
or (better)
Create our own groups for which "View project-level information" is set to Deny (for ex. Developers, QAs, etc.), and then for each new user, remove it from Contributors or Readers and add it to the corresponding group. Then add the user to a team, and for that team set the "View project-level information" option to Allow for the area needed
I would like to allow all members of the organization in Azure DevOps to view all projects (become Readers).
I tried to set up a group rule on the organization settings page.
Group: "Project Collection Valid Users"
Access level: Stakeholder
Projects: Selected them all, and picked Readers for each one.
After that I clicked on Add.
Now, when I try to view the rule I just made with "Manage rule", the project settings have been cleared.
If I select the projects again, and pick Readers, then save, the same thing happens.
Why do the settings disappear?
Also, if I do "Re-evaluate Rules", it runs for a bit. But none of the existing users regardless of their Access level have gotten Reader access to any project.
However, using "Manage user" -> Group rules, the group rule is listed.
So the group rule is applied but the project settings are not working for some reason? How do I fix this?
I chose a different group from AD instead of "Project Collection Valid Users" and now it seems to work as expected.
Using "Project Collection Valid Users" in this context seems to bring some bugs or unexpected behaviour.
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.
I am trying to edit my branch security policies, but nothing ever seems to save. I've tried editing permissions, adding groups, removing groups and nothing seems to happen.
Is there supposed to be save button? This interface is new and appears not to be working.
I am an admin on this Azure account.
To the above question you posted in comment, here is the answer for that:
The groups listed below are inbuilt groups. You will not be able to delete those inbuilt groups.
And if you would like to add any groups, you would need to first create that group in Project Settings and then come back to Branch Security and Add that group here :
Go to Project Settings --> Security --> Create Group
Once you Create the group, go back to Repos --> Branches --> Branch Security --> Click on Add Group and search for the group you created earlier.
You should be able to delete the groups that you have created, But keep one thing in mind that if you delete a group that you created all the users in the group will loose permissions as well.
Yes this is a New UI and it is automatic save when you change the permissions.
Have you tried changing the selection in the dropdown and see if it works?
Once you change the selection in dropdown there will be an indication that the value is changed.
There is no Save Button in the new UI.
The Green tick indicates that the value is changed.
Please take a look at the screenshot below.