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Team Foundation Server - Why can all valid users see all Team Projects?

For TFS2005 this question is valid, because the group Team Foundation Valid Users has the right to View project-level information on Team Projects by default as shown:

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To work around this security issue, deselect the View project-level information option when creating Team Projects.

For TFS2008 this question seems to have vaporised, because by default the group Team Foundation Valid Users does not appear as shown:

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I for one was not aware that this issue fizzled out with TSF2008 ... until Etienne mentioned the problem today and I had a peek at our TFS2005 and TFS2008 servers back home.

Published Wednesday, April 16, 2008 6:20 PM by willy
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