How to restrict user permission from Organization Settings

Question

Hi Team,

I'm looking for applying restrictions to certain entities in Azure devops, these are Projects, Dashboards, Repos, Pipelines and Test plans. I want to know if I can restrict the viewing of these entities from the organization settings.

Currently i checked the projects level settings and from the security groups i can apply these restrictions. These are my following queries:

• Can we apply the same viewing restrictions from the organization setting.
• In case of restriction being given on the organization settings, will it affect the restrictions given at project settings.

Please guide me for the same.

Answer 1

Hello Yash,

Answer to 1st Question -->In Azure DevOps (ADO), you cannot apply the same viewing restrictions for Dashboards, Repos, Pipelines, and Test Plans from the organization settings. Each of these features has its own permission model and management interface. While some overarching organization-level settings might influence access, specific viewing restrictions are typically managed at the project or feature level

Answer to 2nd Question --> Yes, organization-level project visibility settings can override project-level access — but only for the visibility of the project itself, not its internal components.

Ref -->https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/security/about-permissions?view=azure-devops&tabs=preview-page & https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/security/access-levels?view=azure-devops

Pls check and let me know if any futher

Thanks

Deepanshu

Answer 2

Hi Yash Tiwari

Go to Azure DevOps -> Select your Project -> Project Settings -> Overview -> Visibility section -> Change it from Public to Private -> Click Save. This ensures only users explicitly added to the project can access it.

Incase if you wish to turn off all the public projects that can be created under the organization, then go to Organization Settings -> Policies -> Click on “Off” under Allow public projects.

Go to Project Settings -> Permissions -> Users -> Select your user -> Permissions -> Set Deny to Project level information.

You can also enable organization administrators in Azure DevOps to restrict users from seeing and collaborating with users in different projects -> Go to Azure DevOps -> Preview Features -> Select for this organization -> Enable this option.

Additional References:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/limit-user-visibility-and-collaboration-to-specific-projects/

Hope this helps!

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Answer 3

Hi Deepanshukatara-6769,

Thanks for your response.

Could you please explain how can we restrict project visibility from organization level.