How to Add Users to Team Foundation Server



You may want to control the level of admittance that various members of your team have to team projects by granting each member to groups for each project. To offer team members with full admission to all the functionality of your project, you may also have to add them to groups in SQL Server SRS and Sharepoint.

Out of the box, Team Foundation Server creates several groups for each project, and each group has its own level of permissions and rights for that project. You may use these defaulting groups or create custom groups that have precise permissions. As an example,, you may add users to the Readers-group so that they may view work items for a project but yet now allow to create, modify, or delete work items. You may also allow other users to update work items but not allow to deletw projects and publsh test results.

If your project uses properties on Sharepoint and SRS, you need to add users who require those resources to groups that have proper permissions to those programs. To allow users full access to all functionality for your project, you need to add them to the default groups below:

Software

Readers

Contributors

Project Leads

Team Foundation Server

Readers

Contributors

Project Administrators

Sharepoint

Visitors

Members

Owners

SQL Server SRS

Browser

Browser

Team Foundation Content Manager

 

 

To add users to groups in Team Foundation Server:

  1. In VS, Launch Team Explorer, and then connect to the project collection in TFS that contains the project to which you want to add users.

  2. Right click the team project node for which you want to add users, point to Team Project Settings, and then click Group Membership.

  3. Click the name of the group to which you want to add users.

    • add users who require minimal access, click Application1\Readers.

    • add users who will contribute fully, click Application1\Contributors.

    • add users who will act as project leads, click Application1\Project Administrators.

  4. Click Properties.

  5. Under Add Member, click Windows User or Group, and then click Add.

  6. Enter the account name of the person or group for whom you want to set permissions.

  7. Click OK twice.

 

 

To add users to groups in Sharepoint:

  1. In VS, Launch Team Explorer, and then connect to TFS.
  2. Right click the team project node, and then click Show Project Portal.
  3. Perform one of the following sets of steps:

If you are using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0:

    1. Click Site Actions, and then click Site Settings.

    2. In Site Settings, click People and Groups.

    3. In People and Groups, click New, and then click Add Users.

    4. In Users/Groups, Enter the account name for the user or group that you want to add.

    5. In Give Permission, you may add users to a SharePoint group if groups have been configured, or you may give users permissions as individuals. If your SharePoint site has been configured to use groups, click Add users to a SharePoint group, click the group to which you want to add the user, and then click OK. Otherwise, click Give users permission directly, specify the level of permission, and then click OK.



To add users to groups in SRS:

  1. Launch IE.

  2. Enter the following into the address bar, where ReportServer represents the name of the server that is running SQL Server SRS:

http://SQLSRS/Reports/Pages/Folder.aspx

You may find the name of the report server by Launching Team Explorer, expanding the Reports node, and viewing the properties of a report.

  1. Click the Properties tab, and then click New Role Grantment.

  2. In Group or User Name, Enter the account name for the user or group whom you want to add to this group.

  3. Choose the correct role and click OK.