I want to change process from agile to scrum in azure DevOps but the change process button is missing. While i changed the "Change process of team project" setting in project settings.
Did you check your permissions required to perform the change process operation?
Pre-requisites
To create, delete or edit a process, you must be a member of the Project Collection Administrators group, or have the corresponding permissions Create process, Delete process, Edit process, or Delete a field from organization set to Allow. See Set permissions and access for work tracking, Customize an inherited process.
Users granted Basic or Stakeholder access can be granted permissions to create, edit, and delete processes, and administer process permissions.
Learn details at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/settings/work/change-process-basic-to-agile?view=azure-devops#prerequisites
Change process button from agile to scrum is missing in azure devops
According to the image you provided, it seems you are using the Azure devops Server instead of the Azure devops service, which does not support this feature to change the process from agile to scrum.
To change the process from agile to scrum on Azure devops Server, you could check following ticket for some more details:
Is it possible to migrate from Agile to Scrum based project
If you are using Azure devops service, you need to check if you meet the Prerequisites, then select the project, you will see options:
Hope this helps.
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I am setting up some simple Azure services for a company that does not have an IT team yet. My three goals are
The company has to use the Azure portal minimally. The owner is not tech-oriented.
The company can add billing information for the subscription themselves without having to give me all that information.
I can eventually transfer ownership of the azure entity (directory? tenant?) to an IT team.
I cannot find the answer online because all the documentation is oriented towards an IT that works for the company as opposed to freelancer. I am currently using my personal Microsoft account but am able to get a company Microsoft account if needed via their parent organization (which does have IT). Using my personal account, I've created a new tenant then switched to that directory. In that directory I've attempted to add a subscription but it switches me back to my default directory. If I switch to the new directory again, I get the error "In order to view your eligible offers, please click here to switch your directory to {my account}.onmicrosoft.com"
I would appreciate an in-depth answer as I am not familiar with the administration side of Azure.
What are the best practices for accesses permission for programmers working in Azure DevOps? I would like the programmers to be able to use it, by for example having the possibility to create branches.
As far as I can understand by reading documents such as
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/security/set-git-tfvc-repository-permissions?view=azure-devops#git-repository
The only permission needed is a contributor? Is this correct or have I misunderstood the whole thing? The organization I’m working for have for example set the contributor to be a member of :
Build Administrators, Endpoint creators, Release Administrators
Creating users is different thing and assining rights is different thing. Your are looking for something named Policies.
Check for Branching policies in this case.
EDIT:
I was confused with the branching rights, however you can follow the Repository Permissions and Branch permissions to find how you can give permissions on your projects to users
You need to navigate to project settings and then to repositories. there you will find list of repositories and each repo can have certain rights assigned to it. some are inherited, some assigned. You can modify those to fit your likings.
this is the url: https://dev.azure.com/org_name/project_name/_settings/repositories
For more details, follow this link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/security/set-git-tfvc-repository-permissions?view=azure-devops
thanks for you quick answer. Have digged into the documentation and repository permissions. I gave definitely som insight. My concern is that I want a predefined setting for managing the code repository on a team level, thus would no want to give project permission to the programmers. In my azure devops setup I have only on organization with hundreds of teams.
As I understand it, the permission for the repos are set at the project level. I would like to minimize the project level access since it gives to wide accesses in other cases and other teams. So my hope was that giving programmers contributor access would give the more or less all needed access for the repos out of the box. Such as:
1. Clone, fetch, contribute to pull requests, and explore the contents of a repository
2. Contribute to a repository, create branches, create tags, manage notes
Do not really understand why more access are needed. But could for example give the security control to the build admin role by granting the access to change permission. In this case the ones with build amdnin could adminitrate the security for its own team repos.
Any thoughs on this? Apologize if I have misunderstood you answer...
I have this team project in Azure DevOps (previously known as VSTS):
$\TempProjectA
I have this developer that can log into Azure DevOps and develop code:
username: first_developer#example-company.com
password: *****
I have this group that is called SingleFileReaders, and I've added first_developer#example-company.com to this group.
Then using Visual Studio's Source Control Explorer, I've browsed to $\TeamProjectA\FileToBeShared.java, right clicked on it, using Advanced menu I managed to get to Security pop-up. And there, I allowed the read option.
Now I login as first_developer#example-company.com into Visual Studio, but I don't see that file. In fact, I don't see TeamProjectA. What should I do?
You Should add the developer to the Project Team members, with contributor role.
Follow here, Since the UI is changed there are some difficulties to find the securities/adding user configuration in Azure DevOps
Security
Contributor role to access the Source codes
For anyone who's stuck in this point, the trick is to give View project-level information permission to your role/user first. Using built-in roles is not helpful as they have permissions much more than what I wanted. They give access to all files, at least read-only permission.
In order to not be restricted to 4h of build /month, in VSTS we have bought an hosted build agent for us Team (We can see it in Azure portal).
But how restrict the access to the other teams ?
In the Agent Queues i see nothing to do that...
For the same team project, you can’t do it.
For different team projects, the user with Administrator role of agent pool and project collection can create new queue. So you can remove these permissions for others and delete the Hosted queue from related team project. With this way, they can’t use Hosted queue.
BTW, there isn’t the time restrict once buy a Hosted pipeline.
My company process sensitive data and needs to restrict access to production environment. How do I organize subscriptons and (storage) accounts so that I have separate environments?
I could have completely distinct subscriptions but I want to give some devs the power to deploy on production while others should only have access to development assets.
In my ideal world, I'd add individuals to security groups. Whenever a thw dev wants to deploy on production, he/she would use his/her credentials plus an extra confirmation step, like an otp. This way I'd avoid mistakes but still keep simple users management. Is that possible in azure?
Eventually what you are wanting to do will be possible, and is possible to some degree depending on the resource. As more of the features of Azure make it into the preview portal (portal.azure.com) they are showing up with Role Based Access Controls, which is what you are looking for. Unfortunately, right now not all of the resources are there and some are there without full RBAC baked in (such as storage accounts).
For now, the best bet is to still separate by subscription. If you need developers to have the ability to perform a deployment you can create a script that performs the deployment (using stored PowerShell credentials or secured management certs) and then give the developers the ability to execute the script.