Is there a possibility where I can share the configuration of my boards and backlogs with the others in my team?
This way they all have the same columns and order columns that I have.
To configure (add, remove and order) columns in the "Boards/Backlogs" page, the users do not need any additional permission, as long as the users at least have the Reader permission in the project.
Each user can configure the columns on the "Boards/Backlogs" page on his own side. All the changes each user does for columns can only be applied to the "Boards/Backlogs" page on his own side, and not affect on other users' sides.
So, if you want your other team members have the same columns and columns order with that of you on the "Boards/Backlogs" page, you can ask the members to add, remove and order the columns on their own side following the style on your side. For more details, you can see "Change column options".
To configure the "Boards/Boards" page, you need the permissions for configuring team settings. To configure team settings, you must be added to the team administrator role or be a member of the Project Administrators security group.
Only the Administrator users can configure the "Boards/Boards" page. The style configured by the Administrator users is applied to the whole team. That means all the members in your team will see the same things on the "Boards/Boards" page. So, you do not need to grant every team member the permissions to configure the "Boards/Boards" page. Just you Administrator users have the related permissions is OK.
Related
TF50309: The following account does not have sufficient permissions to
complete the operation: Hosted Stakeholder License Security Subject.
The following permissions are needed to perform this operation: Agile
plans..
I am both Project as well as release administrator
I have added the Project collection administrators group to the release administrators.
Yet I can't create a new delivery plan or view the already created one from another team member, because there's this error that prevents me to:
Failed to load data with following error: VS800075: The project with
id
'vstfs:///Classification/TeamProject/0ddc0e80-e58f-40f8-99f2-16c231bd2b45'
does not exist, or you do not have permission to access it.
Pls someone help me out here
In the documentation you can read that you need at least Basic Access Level. Stakeholder access level does not provide access to Delivery Plans. To change your Access Level you need to be member of the Project Collection Administrators group. To set it up:
Go to your Azure DevOps home (e.g. https://dev.azure.com/myorg)
Click Organization Settings in the lower left corner
Click Users in the menu at the left-hand side
Find your own user
Click the three vertical dots on the right-hand side and select Change Access Level
Choose Basic and click Save
You mention that you added the Project Collection Administrators group as a member to the Release Administrators group. First, the Project Collection Administrators group has permissions virtually everywhere, so there is no need. Second, the Release Administrators group has nothing to do with Delivery Plans, but rather with Pipelines. Read more here.
Context:
I have recently been given the role as Azure Devops administrator in the small company I work in. I have no previous experience with this role, and I am currently reading through the extensive documentation on the topic.
What I've got:
An azure organization with several users, groups, permissions, and projects, some of which are up to 6-7 years old. Responsibility for the organization has been passed along several times without any clear plan or consequence, and I am attempting to get an overview and clean up the structure.
What I want to do:
I want to grant all users in the entire organization permission to read, comment on, tag people, and create new work items in Boards (especially backlog and sprint) in all projects, including the ones they are not a team member or user of themselves. I have tried several permission group setups, but I can't get anything to work. Suggestions are welcome.
Sorry but I'm afraid we don't support this feature.
We can't do this if the user is not a member of the project. (Unless he's a PCA, but it's not recommended to grant users as a PCA cause it'll make much risk).
So you need to add all users to projects first to give their permisions to boards. Here are detailed steps.
Create a new group Group1 in Organization Settings -> Security/Permissions. Add all users in the organization to this group.
Go to Project Settings -> General/Permissions and create a new group Group2. Set the Group1 as members of Group2.
Go to Project Settings -> Boards/Project configuration -> Areas. Choose the ... context menu for the node you want to manage and select Security.
Search Group2 and set 'Edit work items in this node' to Allow. Note that some important permissions should be set to Deny.
This solution needs you to add groups and set permissions in projects one by one.
Description
I am adding project's team members as Project Collection Administrators within the Organisation. To make this easier, I wanted to add the Project Team group as such [Team Name]\Team. To enable more people to be added as admins as the project grows. This appears to be allowed^ but I get an error "We are unable to add members to this group at this time. Please try again at a later time or contact support for help"
^ Link to DevOps Documentation:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/accounts/manage-azure-active-directory-groups?view=azure-devops
Other Tries
I have tried doing it later and also added groups that belong to the organisation such as [org name]\[Team lead Developers] or [org name]\Project Collection Test Service Accounts. These are all allowed but not the group formed by Project Teams.
Steps to the issues
Add a project team group to one of the default organisation permissions groups such as the Project Collection Administrators.
Error is:
We are unable to add members to this group at this time. Please try
again at a later time or contact support for help
I expect the group to be added like any other group.
Any ideas to this issue?
Cheers.
This is as designed.
The Add operations between groups need to be at the same level or a high level group added to the lower level group. For example an organization group can be added to a project group,the reverse is not possible .
So, if the group is a project group, then this project group could not be added to an organization group.
For Project level administration (not Organization level), you can make a specific Team have Project Administration level permissions from this menu:
Project Settings > Security > (select team) > Permissions
and then set the following to Allow:
Edit project-level information
Essentially, your goal will be to copy any desired permits from the Project Administrators to the [team] permits.
Really, you can set all these permissions to "Allow" if you really want that [team] to have "full" access to administer.
This will give that team a lot of flexibility to administer within the Project space. It will not; however, let them administer licensing and other Org level items. From my experience, you cannot add [Team] to [Org] level groups; though, you can add [Org] groups to [Project] and [Team] level groups.
If you really want large groups to administer, and you have AD integration; then you can add an AD email distro or security group to the Project Collection Administrators group. That's not something I would ever do since that would be considered dangerous in my Company, but you may not have the same requirements for security, access, and cost controls.
I am trying to grant a user access to view the User column information underneath of Usage inside of Organization Settings, but that specific column is grayed out unless I elevate their permissions to Project Collection Administrator. Where is this permission controlled and can access to this information be granted without elevating the user to Project Collection Administrator?
I am able to see these options under Column Options:
The user can only see these options under Column Options:
Project Collection Administrator permission is required to view User Column. When the User column is available, it means that the member is able to investigate the usage of other users. This is currently designed to PCA only. Refer to this link for details.
For members of the project collection administrators group, this same
page can be used to investigate the usage of other users.
We want some users of one of our SharePoint site to manage permissions on their site but do not want them to give the permission called "Manage Permissions". Because if we do so, the users start assigning the built in permission level “Full Control” to themselves. How can we achieve this?
Please note that the users with the permission level "Manage Permissions" can create and change permission levels on the Web site [Ref: Microsoft]. What we want for them to only be able to create users, groups, and assign certain permissions on the site to those users and groups.
"we want for them ... and assign permissions"
you DO realize that they can just as easily be assigning Full Control to these groups? isn't that what you say you want to AVOID?
manage the permissions for them, and allow them to self manage the GROUP MEMBERS. that way they can add people to the "publishers" group... and net result is that the user has "publish" permissions.
solution 2 can be extrapolated for some very granular needs, but I don't explain how because I wouldn't recommend it.