How to grant users permission to create sprints and backlogs in AzureDevOps? - azure

How do I grant user permission to create sprints and backlogs without giving project administrator access? This is the type of access that project managers or scrum masters would need. I want to make sure they are unable to make any code contribution, edit build/release pipeline, add/remove users, make changes to project etc.

Make them a contributor and change their access level to Stakeholder.

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DevOps permissions: Is there a way to grant project-level permission for iterations and areas but not allow for project security?

I am configuring a project for a team in Azure DevOps (server).
I would like to allow some members of that team to create/manage their own iterations and areas but I can't seem to do so without granting them permission to the project's security. Even where the permissions are inherited, the user can still add/remove people from the security groups.
Do all three permissions truly come from the "Edit project-level information" setting or is there something else I can do?
Thanks!
I have since learned that being a member of "Project Administrators" is what grants access to manage security, not the "Edit project-level permissions" setting.

Microsoft Azure DevOps: Grant user in one project RW permission to Boards in another group?

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.

User unable to access Repos

We have an issue. User is in the Contributors group of the VSTS project. Able to view dashboard and work items. Unable to view Repos. Need help. Any suggestions?
User needed an MSDN license to use Visual Studio in addition to being in the correct group of the VSTS project. Trial license was not good enough.
According to your description, highly doubt those users only have Stakeholder access level.
People with Stakeholder access level could not commit their work on branch and unable to view repos.
Assign Stakeholder access to those users who need to enter bugs,
view backlogs, boards, charts, and dashboards, but who don't buy basic access. Stakeholders can also view releases and manage release
approvals. Stakeholder access is free.
Source Link: About access levels
See Stakeholder access for details of features available to stakeholders.
The user should have either Basic access or Visual Studio subscription which include code feature.
Moreover, if it's still not able to see any other projects after giving them those access. There is another concept called Permissions in Azure DevOps. Double check the permission for Contributor group.
Also make sure you have not add them to any other project team group expect the contribute group.
Once deny the Read permission for repos level, user will not be able to see the repos.
Read
Can read the contents of a file or folder. If a user has Read
permissions for a folder, the user can see the contents of the folder
and the properties of the files in it, even if the user does not have
permission to open the files.

Restrict users permission in GitLab?

I've a requirement, where I need to add a few users from the UI. I'm working with "developer" access to the project in GitLab. Even if already a few users are added with different access while the project is created and only users added from the UI to perform developer role without making any changes in the project.
Is it possible and how to implement it?
"Overwriting" permissions is not possible and if you want to simulate this behavior you could create a new group and share this project with another group. Then you would need to deny access to individual group members. See this permission matrix.

How can we allow users to manage some permissions but not all on a SharePoint site?

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.

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