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How to find the Custom 'Groups Type' in Azure DevOps

Yash Tiwari 240 Reputation points
2025-08-06T11:43:17.13+00:00

Hi Team,

While Assigning Projects to my user in organization I got the option of 'custom' along with Project Readers, Project Contributors, Project Administrators. But that custom group is nowhere present in my project security groups. Where can i find this group? and why am i getting the custom option?
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While checking inside my Project security group i can't find this 'custom' group.

Please let me know how to find this.

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  1. Durga Reshma Malthi 11,595 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
    2025-08-06T12:06:17.4633333+00:00

    Hi Yash Tiwari

    The custom option you are seeing is not related to Project Readers, Project Contributors, Project Administrators. Instead, it means you have some non-standard project permissions which are not aligned with your default Roles.

    Custom is not a standalone group; it’s a label that means this user has a custom permission configuration This might happen if:

    1. Someone edited the security settings for your user or a group.
    2. And if user is part of another group like a custom organization-level or project-level group that is not visible under the default “Project security groups” blade but has been granted specific permissions.
    3. If user have been assigned granular permissions via the Security -> Permissions interface for Repos, Pipelines, Boards, etc.

    If this custom assignment was unclear, you can:

    Remove the user from the project.

    Re-add them using one of the predefined roles to keep access predictable.

    Hope this helps!

    Please Let me know if you have any queries.

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  1. Durga Reshma Malthi 11,595 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
    2025-08-06T14:21:26.3066667+00:00

    Hi Yash Tiwari

    Through UI -> Go to Project Settings -> Permissions -> Search for the user and review their effective permissions. You’ll likely see that their access is built from multiple roles or inherited permissions.

    And Some permissions can come from:

    • Microsoft Entra ID groups
    • Inherited organization-level groups
    • Manually created security groups that are not named Custom.

    API: GET https://vssps.dev.azure.com/{organization}/_apis/graph/memberships/{userDescriptor}?api-version=7.1-preview.1

    Additional Reference:

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/security/?view=azure-devops-rest-7.1

    Hope this helps!

    Please Let me know if you have any queries.

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