Suppose I have a solution inside a TFS collection that contains 3 projects. Ho do I specify what users can do on each project? I mean user A can has readonly access to Proj1, user B can edit Proj1, Proj2 and Proj3 while user C can edit Proj3 but not even see Proj1 and Proj2.
Thanks!
Here's one way:
Open The "Source Control Explorer" TFS Window.
Right click the root folder of a project where you want to have specific access.
Choose "Properties"
Click on the "Security" Tab of the the pop-up properties window
Add the "Windows User or Group" of the user(s) you wish to deny to the "users and groups" list.
Select the user or group in the "Users and Groups" window.
Click on the "Deny" checkbox for whatever operations you wish to deny for those users.
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If you also wish to deny bug tracking, etc in addition to source control, there is a very similar set of steps for the "Team Explorer" window. It's too detailed to go into here, but it should be pretty straight-foward with the help of the MSDN documentation.
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I'm new to Visual studio online. A project manager will join me for a project, and I want to give him full permissions to create/edit/manage processes, features, backlogs. I want also to deny his access to everything else ( Code, builds, tests... ).
What I have done :
- Created a group ( Project managers ) and added him in it.
- Added this group to project team
- Denied access to everything in "Version Control" tab
This way, the user can see the project, and can create features and backlogs, but not see code.
The problem is that, for a reason I can't figure out, the user can't see the items I have created before( features etc ), everything seems empty, he can only do it when I add his group to the group Project Administrators. I can't figure out what is the missing permission in Project Administrators ( or inherited one ) that I should give to his group.
Can someone help me please ?
NB: Maybe I don't have to create a new group and use one of the existing ones.
You can check if the group has the permission to view/edit the work items via following steps:
Open your project from Web Portal.
Click "Manage Project" button in the up right corner.
Click "Areas" tab.
Right click on the root area and select "Security".
Add your group if it isn't listed in the dialog and make sure it has "View work items in this node" and "Edit work items in this node" permission at least.
Is it possible to create a TFS Group / role where users in that group can only manage work items but not check in code?
If so, how would you go about doing this and what permissions does this role need?
I want this for my Project Managers / Business Analysts.
To enable permissions to manage work items, please go to Settings in Team Explorer and select Work Item Areas and Work Item Iterations.
Then on the admin/_areas page (like http://servername:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection/Agile/_admin/_areas), right-click the Area and select Security. Set the Edit work items in this node and View work item in this node to be Allow. You then should do the similar settings to Iterations.
To disable permissions to access source control code: right click the project in Source Control Explorer and select Advanced -> Security to deny source control related permissions:
How do I hide my source folders from users that belong to a particular group? I tried this, but it didn't work for me.
In source control explorer, right click on the folder you want to hide and select Security (under Advanced). There you should be able to set a deny permission for read for the team/group that you want.
My team's project is hosted on the Team Foundation Service (TFS). How can I limit my client's access to the project to only the product backlog items?
The smallest set of rights seems to be 'View project-level information', but this still gives the user access to the code itself and I do not want this.
That is not possible today. We have heard that request more often, and it is tracked on user voice.
Feel free to vote for that suggestion. It helps us prioritize our work.
To deny all access to code you need to:
Open Source Control Explorer in VS2012
Right click you Team Project's Name ($/MyTeamProject).
Select "Advanced"
Select "Security..."
Select their TFS Group (i.e. Backlog Readers) on the Left Hand Side
Click the "inherit allow" (or "allow") permission on the Right Hand Side until it changes to "deny".
Then save the changes.
Is ther a way in TFS 2010 to prevent other users from perfroming a get on a config file that is only to be avaliable for the build process?
Each user is supposed to have their own versions of the files on theier own workstations.
BR
Johan
There are a couple of ways to do this.
you can get each developer to "cloak" the file in their workspace.
Open Source control Explorer and select the "WorkSpace" dropdown
Select "WorkSpaces"
Click on the Edit button
in the "Working Folders" area at the bottom of the screen add a new row, The Status should be "Cloaked" and the "Source Control Folder" should point to the folder or file you want to ignore (you can only navigate to a folder in the "Wizard" but you can add a file manually)
Using Security permissions
Navigate to the file in source control explorer
Right click on the file and select "Properties"
Select the "Security" Tab
Uncheck the "Inherit Security settings" check box
Remove the Group that contains your developers (Unsually the [Team Project]\Contributors group)
The downsides to these approaches
1. The Devs will have to do this on each machine \ workspace they are using.
2. The devs may accidently try to check in the file, this will cause an error.
If you do both then you'll mitigate the problem with the devs checking the file in accidently as it will be cloaked, but you'll still have the issue of each developer needing to set up the cloaked file in every workspace.
Alternatively you could have a "special" version of the file checked in to a different location in source control ,which is copied in to the correct location (overwriting whatever the devs have checked in), as part of your build process.
you can give rights
from source code security tab.
u have to add the person or group in Global Groups And after that you can give any rights from security tab!