How do you add a new security group

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How do you add a new security group

I want to add a group for learning product folks.  Something like <TeamProjectName>\Writers or something like that.  I want to give these folks Read permission on everything except the UserDocs directory.  How do you do this   Do you have to use ADAM   BTW, why aren't these just AD global groups

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  • Sean Allison

    Hmm, I had to exit and restart VS to get the new groups to show up in the Team Permissions dialog box.  This must be a bug, right

  • Rabtok

    The BUILTIN\Administrators Windows Group is by default a member of the [Server]\Team Foundation Administrators group.

    When I add users to the Windows Builtin\Administrators group, they don't appear as members of the Windows group when listed in the Team Foundation Server dialog box.

    TFS won't authenticate the newly added user.

    If I wait long enough, TFS repopulates its list of users in the Windows Builtin\Administrators group, and everything works OK.

    Why the delay

    Why no authentication



  • Kinetic Media

    Yes, we have a variety of issues with changes to groups and permissions not propagating to other part of the product appropriately.  I think we have fixed most of them since we released the Beta but I'll confirm that this one is gone.

  • Jake Montgomery

    I figured out how to add new group security group for a project (Team | Team Project Settings ... | Groups ...).  However, once I add the new group it doesn't show up in Team | Team Project Settings ... | Permissions ... or on the Team Project root dir Properties | Security.  Is this a bug


  • _Raj_

    We believe that the behavior mentioned in this thread is not a bug.  That’s how Windows works too, if you look at the Security tab on a folder’s properties dialog, for example.

    When a new group is created with Global (Project) groups dialog, it will not be automatically added to any permission dialog.

    If operator wants to view/modify this group’s permission settings, he should manually add it to a permission dialog then update its settings.
     
    Thanks.



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