Visual Studio CTP June/August has arrived
We have just received the latest CTP media. Although we will not reload BETA-2 with this CTP (December CTP still hurting us ...) we have looked at the documentation which has been immensely improved. The admin help now includes a definition of which user should be added into which group, which was a mystery in previous releases.
Extract from July/CTP media:
To create a new team project in Team Foundation Server, you must be a member of the Team Foundation Administrators group, a member of the Windows SharePoint Services Administrator role, and a member of the SQL Server Reporting Services Content Manager role. The following table indicates the correct security role membership in each of these products for the global security groups in Team Foundation Server.
| Team Foundation Server Security Group |
Windows SharePoint Services Role |
SQL Server Reporting Services Role |
|
[Server]\Team Foundation Administrators |
Administrator (top-level site) |
Content Manager (system-level role) |
|
[Server]\Team Foundation Valid Users |
n/a1 |
n/a1 |
|
[Server]\Service Accounts |
n/a2 |
n/a2 |
1The Team Foundation Valid Users group contains all users and groups that have access to the server. This group contains all users and groups that are members of the team projects that exist on the server. There is no need to manage membership of this group.
2Accounts in the Service Accounts group do not require membership in security roles on Windows SharePoint Services or SQL Server Reporting Services.
After creating a team project, you assign users to different roles to manage their permissions on a per project basis. Windows SharePoint Services sites do not inherit security settings from the top-level site. Conversely, SQL Server Reporting Services item-level security inherits system-level roles. The following table indicates the correct security role membership in each of these products for the project-level security groups in Team Foundation Server.
| Team Foundation Server Security Group |
Windows SharePoint Services Role |
SQL Server Reporting Services Role |
|
[ProjectName]\Project Administrators1 |
Administrator |
Content Manager |
|
[ProjectName]\Contributor1 |
Contributor |
Browser |
|
[ProjectName]\Reader1 |
Reader |
Browser |
1This name is derived from the MSF for Agile Software Development process template. The actual name of project-level security groups will vary based on the chosen process template.
The procedures for managing security role membership in Windows SharePoint Services and SQL Server Reporting Services can be found the product documentation that accompanies each product.