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
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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.
I am in the project administrator group, since we have a requirement to set the shared query to read-only to Contributors, I toggled the permission for Contributors to Deny except for "Read"
When I try to create new shared query, it says:
TF401256: You do not have Write permission for query Shared Queries.
I clicked on the three dots and bring up the "Permission for Shared Queries" menu, searched my name and a few other people in the Project Administrator Group or Project Collection Administrator Group, it shows all "Deny" permission except for the "Read" for all of us.
When I hover over, it says our permission is being inherited through the {project}\Contributors, but we are in the Administrator group.
Why is that and How can I fix it? I cannot even overwrite the permission. It is stuck at being inherited from the Contributor group.
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It seems you are in a different group(project administrator group and Contributors), check this doc:
In the Azure DevOps, for most groups and almost all permissions, Deny overrides Allow. If a user belongs to two groups, and one of them has a specific permission set to Deny, that user is not able to perform tasks that require that permission even if they belong to a group that has that permission set to Allow.
This is why you get the error message. You could open project settings->Permissions->Search the permission group {project}\Contributors->click the tab Members and remove your account. Then you could create new shared query
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Steps:
Open project settings->Teams->select the team->click the tab Settings->add Administrator, then we could move our account.
link to MS forum for this issue (or similar posted by other people):
https://developercommunity2.visualstudio.com/t/Project-administrator-cannot-save-shared/1339863
It just doesn't sound right to me that in order to have admin permission you cannot be in any team. That maybe workable for a test account but for an organization this workaround or restriction could mess things up a lot.
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.