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
Related
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 Azure DevOps, I want to restrict Project Admins to add and remove users from other built-in groups. Now I know I cannot change the Project Admin permissions in Azure DevOps(ADO) and they are all greyed out but I can add Azure Active Directory group and change the permissions and add all the project admins in that AAD group, but the problem is there is no visible permission I can change to restrict Project admins from adding and removing members. CONTRIBUTORS built ion group is already restricted. Can anyone advise what to change in the permissions to restrict them from adding and removing users from the groups?
As you have connected your AD in your organization you should go in organization settings under policies and deactivate allow team and project administrators to invite new users
I know it's late and you might have already found a solution. However, for any future readers, the way I handled that use case is with the help of custom TFS group called Administrators and leave default Project Administrators intact. Then you can add AD groups inside custom Administrators group and manage permissions for this group.
HTH.
We've been using Azure DevOps but I'm wondering what the Organisation Owner does? Do they have extra permissions in Azure DevOps or is it just a 'for info' type field so people know who to speak with about any DevOps queries / change requests with the setup.
Thinking ours may need to change but just looking to see what the impact is in changing that - i.e. what permissions would the existing person lose (and what would a new person gain) if that was to change to someone else.
Generally, there aren't extra permissions for the owner account, so, just feel free to change owner. For the new owner, he has the admin permission.
On the other hand, you may just add the new user to Project Collection administrators group, then this new user will has admin permission too.
From the docs
An administrator or organization Owner can give you access to select
features or functions, or change your permissions. In this article,
learn how to look up administrators or organization Owners.
and here are the rights or things that organization owner can do.
Generally, as an organization Owner, you are the administrator of your DevOps service and you have super permission. You can manage your project, includes:
Add users to your project
Grant or restrict permissions
Share your project vision and support collaboration
Remove unused services from the user interface
Set code, test, and other policies
Define area and iteration paths for work tracking
Customize work-tracking processes
Review and update notifications
Add teams to scale your organization
Install and manage extensions
Set up billing
Detailed information, you can refer to the following link:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/user-guide/project-admin-tutorial?view=azure-devops
Currently users are members of the Project Administrators group.
Is that the minimum group membership required to add new User Stories and Bugs to the Boards interface?
Update
Area path permissions let you grant or restrict access to edit or modify work items, test cases, or test plans assigned to those areas. You can restrict access to users or groups. You can also set permissions for who can add or modify areas or iterations for the project.
You define both areas and iterations for a project from the Project Settings>Work>Project configuration.
1) Choose (1) Project Settings, expand Work if needed, and choose (2) Project configuration and then (3) Areas.
2) Choose the ... context menu for the node you want to manage and select Security.
More details please take a look our official link.
This is not only based on which group you are in.
Note:
Limitations to select features are based on the access level and
security group to which a user is assigned. The Basic access level and
higher supports full access to all Azure Boards features. Stakeholder
access level provides parti
So to add new User Stories and Bugs on the board, you need to meet both permissions and access for Azure Boards.
For Permission:
Boards present work items as cards and support quick status updates through drag-and-drop.
You could also use single permission to restrict users with Agile Boards. For if you want a simply solution, you could add them to Contributors Group directly.
Note: According to Azure DevOps permission setting, most groups and almost all permissions, Deny trumps Allow. If a user belongs to two groups, and one of them has a specific permission set to Deny, that user will not be able to perform tasks that require that permission even if they belong to a group that has that permission set to Allow.
For Access Level:
Agile boards
Includes limited access to Kanban boards. Stakeholders can't add work items, can't drag-and-drop work items to update status, and can't update fields displayed on cards.
Conclusion: The minimum should be Contributors Group and Basic Access Level
No, the Contributors permissions it's enough:
More info about the board/work items permissions you can find here.
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.