I can see that it's possible to change the owner of an organization, and I can also add users to the Project Collection Administrators group so that they get most administrative rights, but cannot find how to add multiple owners to the organization.
You cannot have multiple owners for the Azure Devops Organization.
According to Create and configure organization FAQs:
Q: How many organization Owners can I have?
A: Your organization can have only one owner. Only organization Owners can do certain actions, so make sure you keep your organization Owner updated.
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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 have 10+ teams and 50+ repos in an organization account. The goal is to group selected repos into a management unit so I can grant access to teams with fine permission.
The members of the teams will keep changing roughly monthly.
Question
Is this possible?
If not, what's the best practice?
An organization is itself a group of repositories.
You can manage team access to an organization repository or to all repositories, not to a group of repositories inside that organization.
You would need to define one organization per group of repositories in order to grant access for said groups.
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
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
As GitHub user I can create an organization. What i don't understand -- Is an organisation independent?
Is it a repositories container, that needs a (user) account it belongs to or
is it for itself an (organization) account GitHub user (and doesn't need any personal user account)? Is it then correct to say, that an organization is a "featured user" account -- an account with all the features of a personal user account (especially code management, commenting etc.) and some additional functionality?
The biggest difference between user accounts and organizations is team-based permissions for the repositories owned by the organization.
This means you can have team members under your organization and let them interact more aggressively with your repositories compared to plain contributors.
I'd say the concept of a GitHub organization is pretty independent from a plain GitHub user - they aren't the same thing. See for example how you can convert a user to an organization https://help.github.com/articles/converting-a-user-into-an-organization/
With that being said, organizations have what they call owners.
You can have multiple owners (i.e you can invite people to be owner of your organization along with you) but an organization cannot have zero owner.
For example, when you create an organization while logged under your account, the default first owner of the organization you just created is yourself.
Here's a more detailed list about the differences between a user and an organization
https://help.github.com/articles/what-s-the-difference-between-user-and-organization-accounts/
An organization is not a user, it doesn't have a password and you cannot log into an organization like you can to a personal/user account. But an organization can own repositories, which can be made accessible to actual persons/users who have passwords and can login.