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Download permission report for a release

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Azure DevOps Services

To determine the effective permissions of users and groups for a release, you can download the permissions report. Requesting the report generates an email with a link to download the report. The report lists the effective permissions for the release you select, for each user and group specified at the time the report is generated. Inherited permissions come from a parent group that you can view from the web portal. The report is a json-formatted report that you can open using Power BI or other json reader.

You can also use the Permissions Report REST API to download the report.

Prerequisites

Category Requirements
Permissions Member of the Project Collection Administrators group. Organization owners are automatically members of this group.

Open the security dialog for the release

You can download the report for a specific release from the release's Security dialog.

  • Open the web portal, navigate to Pipelines>Releases, and choose the release you want to download permissions for. Choose More actions and then choose Security.

Download report

  1. Choose Download detailed report.

    Screenshot of Permissions dialog for a release, Download detailed report button.

    The following message displays indicating the request was submitted to the server.

    Screenshot of request submitted message.

  2. Once you receive the email from Azure DevOps Notifications, open it and choose Download Report.

    A report labeled PermissionsReport_GUID.json appears in your Downloads folder.

    Important

    Reports are automatically deleted after 28 days of the request.