I have two different project in my TFS. They are in the same collection. Can I setup Team Foundation Server for users only see and work on one project which I assign to them? I want them to work only one project without being able to see the other one.
Team Foundation Server Permissions - MSDN
Project-Level Permissions
Project-level permissions are specific to a single project's users and
groups. You can set these permissions in Team Foundation Server by
right-clicking the project in Team Explorer and clicking Security.
Additionally, you can set these permissions by using the TFSSecurity
command-line utility.
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I am new to Team Foundation server.
1)What is meant by collection in TFS?
2)How can me and my friends work on a project using TFS?
1)What is meant by collection in TFS?
Simply saying a team project collection is a group of team projects in TFS.
When your Team Foundation Server (TFS) hosts multiple team projects, you can manage them more efficiently by grouping them together and assigning the same resources to them. For example, you can group projects that have similar requirements or objectives, such as all team projects that access a particular code base. You can then manage the group of team projects as an autonomous resource with its own user groups, server resources, and maintenance schedule.
A group of team projects is called a team project collection. When you install TFS, a default collection is created to contain all team projects. When you create a collection, you specify the logical and physical resources that team projects within that collection can use. All the artifacts and data that those team projects use are stored in the single database of the collection.
See Manage team project collections in Team Foundation Server for details.
2)How can me and my friends work on a project using TFS?
Too much content for this question. Suggest you reading the Quickstarts documents first.
Basically you need to do following things first:
Create a team project
Add users to a team project or specific team
Add administrators, set permissions at the project-level or project
collection-level
Connect to TFS --> Version Control --> Build/Release
Please refer to the Guide link for each related point : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/?view=vsts#pivot=start
Also here is a simple guide for your reference to Get Started with Team Foundation Server 2015
We're trying to configure Access Levels for an on-premise TFS 2015 server as explained here.
However the "Access levels" tab in Control Panel is not visible to our TFS Administrator. He has administration right for both the Team Collection and Team Project. We're not running TFS Express, so this should be available to us.
This leaves us wondering, what are the requirements to be able to configure Access levels in TFS 2015? Is there something we are missing?
To see the Access levels tab, you need to add the user to Team Foundation Administrators group
If you don't see the Access levels tab, you aren't a TFS administrator
and don't have permission. Here's how to get permissions (Add
administrators to TFS).
You can quickly grant these permissions to administrators by adding them to the Team Foundation Administrators group from TFS administration console in Team Foundation Server (TFS).
Follow the steps mentioned in this link : Add administrators to TFS:
On the application-tier server, add the user to the local
Administrators group.
In the TFS administration console and add the user to the set of
users who can run the administration console.
Make sure you have selected the Add user to Team Foundation Administrators group item.
If I load up TFS Web Access and go to Security > Users, I only see the 3 people I've added to my team. However, when I try to assign a task to someone in Web Access or in Visual Studio, it lists a bunch of users from the domain (not all users, looks like all IT people). Where does this come from? How can I change it... without exporting, editing and importing files via command line?
update: I found this line in the MSDN documentation:
Team Foundation \Team Foundation Valid Users
Members of this group
have access to Team Foundation Server. This group automatically
contains all users and groups that have been added anywhere within
Team Foundation Server. You cannot modify the membership of this
group.
I really don't understand... this is our own team's server, a separate install from the main dev team. I have no idea how these other 30 or 40 users got in this group. Major bonus <3 for any help on this. MikeR's answer will allow me to set administrators as the only assigness which will technically fix the issue, but I'd rather be able to use the groups as they were intended if possible.
The problem was that [TEAM FOUNDATION]\Valid Users included [TEAM FOUNDATION]\Team Foundation Administrators which included [BUILT IN]\Administrators
In the TFS Server Administration Console I selected Application Tier and clicked Group Membership. I then double-clicked on [TEAM FOUNDATION]\Team Foundation Administrators and removed [BUILT IN]\Administrators.
Now I only see my team and not all the SQL admins and engineers that were local admins on the server. All without any command line or addons.
This list of possible assings is defined in the WorkItemTypeDefinition. Usually you would export and import this. If you have the TFS PowerTools (http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/b1ef7eb2-e084-4cb8-9bc7-06c3bad9148f) installed, you can directly work with the WITD in Visual Studio.
To do this, open "Tools->Process Editor->Work Item Types->Open WIT from Server". Choose the TeamProjectCollection you want to connect to and than choose the TeamProject and WorkItemType you are having trouble with.
Check the rules for "AssignedTo" field. Default could be the "ValidUser" rule, which includes every permitted user in TFS. Remove that rule and add a new one "AllowedValues" rule with values like "[project]\Project Administrators", than only "Project Administrators" can be assigned to this Work Item.
If there is already a group defined and not all "ValidUser", remove users from the group set is set there.
Suppose I have a team foundation server http://tfs:8080 and a collection named Collection1 and a project named Project1. How would I go about giving user User1 all privileges on the project? (Either by adding him to the Team Project Administrators group OR by granting individual privileges as you would in the GUI)
This is what i would recommend, download the TFS ADMIN tool http://tfsadmin.codeplex.com/, this is a community tool that for TFS Administrators, The TFS Administration Tool allows Team Foundation Server administrators to manage user permissions on all three platforms utilized by Team Foundation Server: Team Foundation Server, SharePoint, and SQL Server Reporting Services. The tool also allows administrators to easily copy user permissions among team projects and to easily identify any missing permissions on any of the three platforms.
However, you don't need the admin tool to assign permissions. You can right click on the team project and click on group membership, double click on the group that you would like to add the user to and add their windows login to the group. You can read more about this here, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252477.aspx
HTH
Cheers, Tarun
I have installed Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 on Windows 7 Professional edition.
How can I manage (add) new users which can use the TFS 2010?
I had the same challenge. It isn't obvious how this can be done without Visual Studio but here we go... On your TFS 2010 server:
Go to Team Foundation Server
Administration Console
Navigate to your Team Project Collection
Select Group Membership from the General tab
Open Project Collection Valid Users. It should include your Team Projects's groups as
members.
Select suitable Team Project group and add your user into that group.
Since you don't have a server version of windows, you can't have a domain, so you can't add domain users to your project.
You should either install a server (which most people might recommend) or you can save your time and effort and just simply create local users on your TFS server (which can have any version of windows). This method will work just the same as installing a windows server. To do that just go to this location:
"Computer Management" -> "Local Users and Groups" -> Users
Add any users you want and in order to prevent windows from showing them in the welcome screen, double click on each one of them and remove their member of data (which is set to Users by default)
Then follow Kyberias' instructions.
Connect to a team project in VS2010.
In the Team Explorer menu expand your team project.
Right click Team Members and select Add Team Member.
From here you can add members and assign them permissions based on what they should be allowed to do on the project.
I hope this is what you are looking for.
The problem here is that there are no TFS users per se. TFS authenticates users against windows which runs it. Once you have some windows users, then you must configure permissions as mentioned by Kyberias.