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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

By : Tarun Arora
Book Image

Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

By: Tarun Arora

Overview of this book

Team Foundation Server (TFS) allows you to manage code repositories, build processes, test infrastructure, and deploy labs. TFS supports your team, enabling you to connect, collaborate, and deliver on time. Microsoft's approach to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) provides a flexible and agile environment that adapts to the needs of your team, removes barriers between roles, and streamlines processes. The book introduces you to creating and setting up team projects for scrum teams. You'll explore various source control repositories, branching, and merging activities, along with a demonstration of how to embed quality into every code check-in. Then, you'll discover agile project planning and management tools. Later, emphasis is given to the testing and release management features of TFS which facilitate the automation of the release pipeline in order to create potentially shippable increments. By the end of the book, you'll have learned to extend and customize TFS plugins to incorporate them into other platforms and enable teams to manage the software lifecycle effectively.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring security for release definitions


Like other modules in TFS, release management also uses the role-based permission model for security. Permissions define the authorizations that can be granted or denied to users and groups. In this recipe, you'll learn about the different levels at which security can be applied for release management.

Getting ready

To administer the permissions for release management, you need to have Administer release permissions set to Allow. This is, by default, set to Allow for members of the Project Administrators and Release Administrators Group:

How to do it…

  1. Navigate to the Release hub in FabrikamTFVC Team Project. From the All release definitions context menu, choose Security... to open the permission dialog. This will allow you to administer the permissions for all release definitions in the Team Project:

    The permissions dialog shows groups, users, and permissions. The permission dialog can be used to change permissions for groups as well as add new users...