Azure DevOps - Adding users to Project

Question

Hi,

We are having account for Azure DevOps. We have created one organization and few projects inside it.

At organization level we can get 5 users with Basic features access level. I just wanted to know these 5 licenses with Basic features is available at organization level in spite of number of projects inside that organization.Please confirm on this.

Also I want to know when we invite any external user to our Azure DevOps project then that external user needs to be part of Azure AD tenant on which DevOps services are hosted.

At Project level we have 'Invite' option to invite users to our project. From Project Settings -> Security -> Add Member, we can also invite users to our project. I found that the Security Group can be searched and added when we navigate through later approach but not with the first one. Is there any type of restriction? Does both ways of adding user is same?

Regards

Sanjay

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Sanjay Nipane

Answer 1

It sounds like you're wondering if the users and the number of projects are correlated when getting 5 users with basic features access.

It shouldn't matter the number of projects inside the organization, the official docs for billing are here : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/billing/buy-basic-access-add-users?view=azure-devops

In regards to your second question regarding adding users to a project. It is also covered in the Azure Devops doc here : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/security/add-users-team-project?view=azure-devops

That is either way is as effective however adding multiple users is typically easier through Azure AD.

From the Azure Devops doc above:

For anyone to access a project, they must be added to one of the default security groups or a custom group. Usually you add them to the Contributors group. For a quick look at what permissions are assigned to the default groups, see Permissions and access.

The easiest way to add a number of users to a project is to add groups defined in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) or Active Directory (AD).

 Important

If you're adding users to an organization in Azure DevOps and you don't use Azure AD, then you need to add their "personal" Microsoft accounts to your account or project. After you've added them to one project, you can add them to additional projects using the procedures provided in this article.

Once users have been added to a project, you can browse for their display name or user name (email alias). Also, you can add them to a specific team. To add a team, see Add a team.

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