TFS 2015 - Setting permissions per area

Question

I've recently completed the deployment of TFS 2015 Update 1, we have around 15 development teams in the UK and previously we have always structured our TFS projects as follows:

Default Collection Application 1 (Team Project) Application 2 (Team Project)

This caused issues with sharing work items across teams as it is difficult to move WI's across the project boundary.

Rather than create a new team project for each team, I want to manage things with a single team project and create separate areasiterations eams for each one. So:

Project Collection > Master Team Project > Area 1 Area 2 Area 3 etc

in terms of permissions I would like to add in each of the standard TFS permission groups to each area. I would also like to create a root folder for source control for each area.

At the moment I can't work out how to do this? Can anyone help?

Answer 1

I suggest you to look at the some community suggestion on this topic.

• One Team Project to rule them all
• Why You Should use a Single (Giant) TFS Team Project
• How to implement a multiple team strategy in Team Foundation Server 2013

In general it is a good practice (I won't say best practice as it is not the right thing to do in some cases).

Regarding you question, you should focus on Team to define developers access, and TFS groups for general (e.g. administrative) access.