VSTS RTM: The Journey, Security Intermission
Talking about licensing … when setting up the group membership of the team foundation server, I noticed a new VSTS group “Team Foundation Licensed Users”, which obviously defines users that are licensed to use the Workgroup Edition of Team Foundation Server. It seems that like the rest of us, Microsoft is anticipating licensing issues as well.
Forget easy user administration using Window groups … this licensing group accepts only user accounts, which makes me wonder when we will finally get a permission configuration utility to lift the maintenance and confusion surrounding security with a simple wizard. This remains a complex area and will therefore remain to be an area of concern in terms of production support for some time.
With the exception of this new group, the security can be configured as outlined by quick reference poster “Team System Security Mapping” on http://www.drp.co.za/default.asp?id=technologies/content_technologies_t. We prefer using a domain group VSTSAdmins which defines the users that are able to perform administrative actions on the SharePoint, Reporting and TFS Services, rather than specifying individual user accounts all over the place.
Next we will create a team project and wonder into the world of work items and modeling.
In terms of the “snail” reflected on quick reference poster “Team System” on http://www.drp.co.za/default.asp?id=technologies/content_technologies_t we will proceed to step 3 and continue “rocking” through VSTS.
See you again in step 3 …