I'am recently installed Azure DevOps Server 2019 in on-premises server.
However, i'am so confused : How i can set the security and the user permission in the server, such as : Deny user to view author project in the same collection , create custom group not in the azure devops default groups ...
I ask for idea to implement that
Thank you
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.
Deny user to view author project in the same collection.
Assume you were talking about team project. In your scenario, the simplest way is not add that user to your team project. People without team project collection admin permission will not be able to see those projects which they are not added in.
If you already add users in the team project and want the user not be able to see some info such as repo/build/work items in the project .
You need to evidently deny those users for viewing some project repositories/builds/ work items.
As how to create group, you could directly click New Group in the right top corner of the page from Project Settings-- Permission
More details about how are permissions and groups defined, suggest you go through our official doc here-- About permissions and groups
Besides, you could also manage user permission with the help of command line. The tfssecurity command line tool allows us to manage permissions for Azure DevOps groups and users. We could use it in a PowerShell script to grant access to projects that already exists.
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we have a security qa group in office 365.
Members of this group are not allowed to access source code.
In vsts (Azure devops), we have denied access to the source code to this QA group ( denied on all repositories)
Now, we have 1 user that is going to join the dev team.
He is still member of the QA group but he also needs access to the source code.
We are unable to give him permissions.
As soon as we overwrite the permissions (contribute = Allow), when we leave and come back, contribute systematically comes back to deny.
The QA group coming from Office 365 has permissions on several resources and currently it is impossible to remove the user from this group.
How do we prevent access to source code to this group and allow 1 user in this group to access the code?
Note: We tried to play the inheritance flag on the user and on the group (all possible configuration) and this did not work
To be more precise: we want the QA team to have access to the test plan, board and overview and not the repos or the pipelines and one member of this group now needs access to the source code.
Is it possible to provide a reduced set of permissions to allow a user permission to add other users to a project without being a full blown administrator? Adding a user as a Project Admin provides to more access which is a huge security issue.
You could add user as contributor or Project Valid Users with limited access. Please see Project-level groups
Contributors: Has permissions to contribute fully to the project code base and work item tracking. The main permissions they don't have are those that manage or administer resources.
Project Valid Users: Has permissions to access and view project information.
Besides, you could also create a custom group to grant or restrict permissions in project setting >> permission >> new group. Then, change permission for the group.
Set approval process to delete any project/repos of Azure DevOps(ADO).
I have multiple owners in my private Azure Devops. From the docs it appears that any individual owner/users can go rogue and delete the entire Azure project/repo from existence though i know it can be restore easily in Azure devops within 28 days, But still I'd like to prevent that from happening.
Is there any way to set up Azure Devops user/group permissions such that deleting the repo requires the approval of its owners ? Kindly suggest if I missed the Azure docs if this feature is already there ?
Making myself the sole owner is not a viable solution, as I want to prevent myself (or an unauthorised user of my account) from having this power, too. So need to implement the approval process for this.
From below SS you can see it is not expecting any approval while deleting the whole project.
I'm afraid there is no such feature to approve delete request. However, you can set the delete permission of users to deny.
Project:
If you want to delete a project, you must be a member of the Project Collection Administrators group or have the Delete team project permission set to Allow.
You can set this permission to deny if you don’t want other users to delete the project. Members in Project Administrators Group can manage permissions or groups at the project level and their delete project permission is allow by default.
Repositories:
You can set the delete repository permission of users to deny.
In addition, for most groups and almost all permissions, Deny overrides Allow. For members of the Project Collection Administrators or Team Foundation Administrators groups, Deny doesn't trump Allow.
Unfortunately, you read correctly. There isn't a way to require approval prior to repo deletion.
However, what you can do is create a group of users that you would want to be prevented from deleting repos and update the repo permissions to include an explicit deny for the "Delete Repository" permission:
I add external AD groups to my Organization/Project level just fine. That is, to share my Projects with them.
But, users belonging to the AD groups don't see anything from me on their Azure DevOps home page.
Only when I add them individually as Organization 'Users', they see my projects.
Wondering if I need to do something extra to make AD Groups fully work.
Permissions are Ok. I added the groups even as 'Project Administrators'.
Thank you.
First，you need to check if the organization is properly connected to AAD in the following article, Connect your organization to Azure AD .
Confirm that the connection process is complete. Sign out, and then open your browser in a private session and sign in to your organization with your Azure AD or work credentials.
You can let users to go to azure DevOps profile page to check if they switch to the corresponding domain.
There are good instructions available here on changing the VSTS connection from one Azure AD to another: Change VSTS AD.
But what if you just want to remove the Azure AD integration, and just revert to using Microsoft Accounts?
I successfully performed all the steps in the instruction, up to the point of attaching a new target Azure AD. You'd think when the VSTS account was unlinked in Azure, it would no longer show up in VSTS.
But going to https://[AccountName].visualstudio.com/_admin/_home/settings still shows account being backed by the source directory.
Attempting to add a Microsoft Account based user at https://[AccountName].visualstudio.com/_user fails to find the account, presumably because it is looking the the Source Azure AD.
This is an important capability when transferring ownership of an account. Thanks for taking a look!
You can follow the steps here: Disconnect your Team Services account from Azure AD.
To stop using Azure AD and revert to using Microsoft accounts, you can
disconnect your Team Services account from its directory.
Here's what you'll need:
Microsoft accounts added to your Team Services account for all users.
Team Services account owner permissions for your Microsoft account.
Directory membership for your Microsoft account as an external user
and global administrator permissions. Azure AD members can't
disconnect Team Services accounts from directories.
With the help of Microsoft Premium Support, we did manage to get this worked out.
The problem was the Team Services was not disconnected from the associated Azure AD before it was unlinked. Then once it was unlinked, it appeared gone from Azure, leaving no way to disassociate Azure AD.
The documentation does show to first disconnect the VSTS account from Azure AD, and then “unlink” the account. Where I got into trouble was by using the new portal. It's pretty hard to even find the old portal anymore BTW).
The new portal has this nice handy unlink button, which is practically irresistible. If clicking it, then it declares success. There is nothing in the UI that prevents you from unlinking while still leaving the AD association. There is no option at all in the new UI portal, as far as I could find, to disconnect Team Services from Azure AD.
Once unlinked, the only fix is to relink, and then redo it all in the old portal as is indicated by the documentation.
This is much more difficult than it should be because it seems like something that should be simple to achieve through the web UI. These posts helped me, but I wanted to add my 2 cents:
In order to disconnect VSTS from AAD you need to be able to use the disconnect button on the configure tab in the old portal seen here. However, you can only use that button if you're the VSTS account owner and if your account is not sourced from the currently linked active directory (i.e. - a MS Account). But you can't make the VSTS account owner a MS account if you've used the portal's interface to add the MS Account to your AAD as an external user. This is because external users are added as Guest account type by default (rather than Member type). If you try to set the MS account as VSTS owner you get the "AAD guest users are not allowed to be collection owners" message seen here.
It's a chicken/egg thing which is made more difficult by the fact that the official documents for this process make no mention of the conflict you'll face. They read as if this should just work.
The answer is that (as of today) you can't do this without using Powershell or an AAD API to convert the MS Account from a "Guest" to a "Member" user type. There are a number or articles out there which walk through the older APIs to do this. Here is what I did with the latest PS:
First, log in to the directory you wish to unlink with an account which has permissions to modify members. Ideally an admin or owner.
Connect-AzureAD
Next, find the account you want to modify using this command:
Get-AzureADUser
Find the ObjectID of the user you want to convert from Guest to Member and then run this command:
Set-AzureADUser -ObjectId [ObjectID GUID Here] -UserType Member
This will convert the MS Account in the AAD you want to unlink to a 'member' type. In my situation I found that I had to remove the MS Account from VSTS and re-add it in order to trigger a refresh which allowed me to set it as account owner.
Now you just follow the documented steps:
set MS account as project owner. Save.
log in to old portal, go to configure tab, and disconnect
log back in everywhere to see the changes