View Default Groups

You can view group information and membership for any group in a team project collection or a team project. Review the group information and membership for the default groups in your collection regularly, to help ensure the security of your deployment. Make sure that only users who require the permissions granted by membership in those groups belong to those groups.

Required Permissions

To perform these procedures, you must be a member of the Project Collection Valid Users group or your View Project-Level Information and View Collection-Level Information permissions must be set to Allow. For more information about permissions, see Team Foundation Server Permissions.

To display membership for collection-level groups

  1. In Team Explorer, select the team project collection for which you want to display group membership information.

  2. From the Team menu, point to Team Project Collection Settings, and then click Group Membership.

  3. In the Global Groups dialog box, select the group for which you want to display group membership, and then click Properties.

  4. In User or Group, review the list of member users and groups displayed under the Member tab. To see what groups this group is a member of, click the Member of tab. To see what groups a user is member of, double-click the user name.

  5. When you have completed your review, click OK.

To display permissions for collection-level groups

  1. In Team Explorer, select the team project collection for which you want to display group membership information.

  2. From the Team menu, point to Team Project Collection Settings, and then click Security.

  3. In the Global Security dialog box, in Users and Groups, select the group for which you want to display permissions.

  4. Review the list of selected items in the permissions list. If an item is shaded and not selectable, that permission has been set by default and cannot be changed.

  5. When you have completed your review, click Close.

To display membership for project-level groups

  1. In Team Explorer, select the team project for which you want to display group membership information.

  2. From the Team menu, point to Team Project Settings, and then click Group Membership.

  3. In the Project Groups dialog box, select the group for which you want to display group membership, and then click Properties.

  4. In User or Group, review the list of member users and groups displayed under the Member tab. To see what groups this group is a member of, click the Member of tab. To see what groups a user is member of, double-click the user name.

  5. When you have completed your review, click OK.

To display permissions for project-level groups

  1. In Team Explorer, select the team project for which you want to display group membership information.

  2. From the Team menu, point to Team Project Settings, and then click Security.

  3. In the Project Security dialog box, in Users and Groups, select the group for which you want to display permissions.

  4. Review the list of selected items in the permissions list. If an item is shaded and not selectable, that permission has been set by default and cannot be changed.

  5. When you have completed your review, click Close.

See Also

Tasks

Add Users to Team Projects

Concepts

Adding and Removing Users To and From Groups

Other Resources

Managing Team Foundation Server in an Active Directory Domain

Default Groups