How to grant access to a project for all members in the organization?

Question

The Project Collection Valid Users group contains a list of all users and groups that have access to a project in the Azure DevOps platform.

Unfortunately, it seems that you can't add this group to another group that has access to another project.

I need all members of the organization to be able to access a specific project.

How can this be accomplished?

Answer 1

When you create new group in a project. The new group will be automatically added to the Project Valid Users group.

And Project Valid Users of each Project is automatically added to Project Collection Valid Users group of the Organization, which means the Project Collection Valid Users group is the parent group of all groups. That's why you cannot add this group to another group.

One of the workaround to allow all organization members to access a specific project is to create a new group(ie. AllOrganizationUsers in below screenshot) to include all the users in the Permissions page under Security section in Organization Settings.

Then you can add this new group created in the organization Setting page to a existing group(or create new group in project permissions setting page)of the project Permissions page.