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Monday, March 23, 2009 9:55 PM

Deny: revisited

In a previous post , I talked about the deny option and how it’s evaluated. The documentation on MSDN is talking about conflicting permissions on the same level, however, in TFS2008 SP1, permissions are evaluated bottom up and the first match wins. If
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Friday, March 20, 2009 2:13 AM

Thoughts on setting permissions on non-existent items

Permissions in TFS are namespace based. The namespace doesn't have to exist to set a permission on. I can think of some scenarios when this is actually a requirement: You may like to set permissions on future items so that the permissions are effective
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 12:01 AM

TFS and HTTPS

Here’s a walkthrough to setup TFS with HTTPS . There are some tips that you may find useful: You may want to avoid using common port numbers like 444 and 445 for TFS website and WSS admin website as other websites may be using them already You may want
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:59 AM

Deny

Some thoughts about permissions, especially deny. Why deny? Because deny is the best way to apply the principle of least privilege . When a permission is set, it shouldn't matter what client is used to access TFS, the permissions are evaluated according
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