Team Foundation Server 2010 Project Collection and Project Permissions

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I'm new to Team Foundation Server 2010 and I have a question about permissions.

Is it possible for a project to inherit permissions from a project collection? I want to setup a custom contributor group at the project collection level and add the developers to it. Each time they create a new project I want to inherit the permissions from the project collection. That means I don't have to explicitly add the developers to the project each time they create one.

Maybe there is some other way of doing this and not having to setup a custom contributors group? Any help would be appreciated!

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I would recommend setting up some Active Directory Groups along the lines of:

  • TFS Contributors
  • TFS Administrators
  • TFS Project Managers

(You could also do this for specific projects. You get the idea.)

Give these AD groups the permissions you need, and simply add/remove the developers to the AD groups. If you can get the ability to manage the AD group, this will be much simpler that administering through the TFS admin tools.

Hopefully, you'll already have AD groups that fit these needs, saving you the trouble. Maybe a team-wide distribution list, for example?

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You can create collection level roles (TFS Groups) and edit your process template to grant permissions to those roles so there are set by default in every new project.