I want to add a guest account to my Azure Active Directoy and give it access to an Azure DevOps project. Inside the project the guest should only be allowed to create, edit and delete work items. Basically all the features on boards except administrative work. All other features of DevOps should be restricted.
The problem is, that I can't find a way to create a new group which fits my requirements. As soon as a user should be able to create work items he must be member of the default "Contributor" group. But then he can also create environments for example because there is no way to deny permissions regarding environments inside self defined groups.
Does anybody have an idea how to restrict permissions for a user or a group to only the mentioned board related features?
Thanks in advance
Does anybody have an idea how to restrict permissions for a user or a group to only the mentioned board related features?
Indeed, there is no such group which fits your requirements directly.
As workaround, we could create a new group as member of the Contributors group:
we add this new created group as Reader in the Security of Environments:
Then add this new created group to other modules that need to be restricted with same principle.
Related
In trying to restrict access to an Azure DevOps repository, it appears I've denied access to EVERYONE, including myself and project administrators. It is now not visible to any of us so nobody can resolve the issue, but if I try to create a new repository with that name it says I can't because it still exists. Please help - I am desperate!
You need to Look up the Organization owner and contact them, since
The organization owner can provide permissions at any level within the organization or project.
To do so,
Choose the Azure DevOps logo to open Projects, and then choose Organization settings.
Choose Overview and scroll down to show the Organization owner.
After delete Azure Active directory user and resync. I lost access to multyple places, company environment in AzureDevOps
If you mean you can not access some resources in Azure DevOps, you need to check the access level and permission of your account and the group you belong to.
First, check the access level of your account or group. If you have Stakeholder access level, change to Basic level:
The Basic access level and higher supports full access to all
Azure Boards features. Stakeholder access level provides partial
support to select features, allowing users to view and modify work
items, but not use all features. Stakeholder access is available
to support free access to a limited set of features by an unlimited
set of stakeholders.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/security/permissions-access?view=azure-devops
If the access level is already Basic level, check the permission of your account or group. You need to check the following link to grant your account or group appropriate permission for the resources:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/security/permissions?view=azure-devops&tabs=preview-page
I want to create an user in azure portal with read only access to all resources in all of my subscription.
This user should not be able to modify any thing in any of my available subscriptions.
Seems You are trying to add a user who should have read only access to all resources in all of your subscription beside This user should not be able to modify anything on the tenant.
So the best way is to add that user as Global Reader(Can read everything that a global administrator can, but not update anything.) Role
Which provides authority to access all resources in all of your
subscription but cannot modify anything among the available
subscriptions.
Hope this would help you.
This only covers Azure Active Directory resources. If you are trying to give read-only to Azure SUBSCRIPTION Resources, add the users to the Azure Role: "Readers".
The best recommendation here will be to add users with the reader permission to each subscription.
You would need to set your RBAC assignments per subscription. In case you have many subscriptions, you can automate this with a Logic App and doing requests to the Management API. Reference here. So on your logic app, you basically get a list of subscriptions, and then iterate them, and make the RBAC add assignment request for each of the subscriptions and for your given user(s).
Currently, my Azure DevOps account do not have project collection administrator permission. I can see the "Add user" button if I added the project collection administrator. Is there a granular role to add a user to an organization without assigning project collection administrator.
Add users to organization without assigning project collection
administrator
For this issue , unfortunately it is impossible to achieve in azure devops.
This is clearly stated in the official documentation:
Prerequisites
You must have Project Collection Administrator or
organization Owner permissions in Azure DevOps. For more information,
see Set permissions at the project level or project collection level.
For details,please refer to this.
If you can see "add user" active button in Project Collection Admin group on the top right hand side, you must be a member of a teams group which is directly or indirectly is a part of a Project collection administrator group. Usually that is done when you are a part of teams group and that teams groups is the part of PCA(Project Collection Admin.
Alternatively, since you wont be able to edit the permissions of PCA, you can create a teams group and add that teams group to PCA and play around with the permissions and you will be add the users to the ORG as well.
I'm creating subscriptions in Azure with a number of RBAC roles assigned: hosting team and project team. The hosting team should have full access to everything, and the project team should have full access to everything baring a few exception, e.g. no access to the 'Networking' resource group (although they are allowed to create their own resource group(s) containing networking). We have set the RBAC owner for the project team at the subscription level, but in doing so, this also allows them to fully manage the restricted areas.
In principal the 'deny' assignments in Azure Portal would fit our needs, however they are currently only available for Azure Blueprints. Any ideas?
Block inheritance doesnt exist yet, your only option is to carefully craft and assing custom rbac roles or carefully assing built-in roles (so, never at sub level, only at resource group level).
Or use Azure Blueprints, it appears they added support for that there.