Team Foundation Sidekicks 2.2 Released – Includes new Permissions Sidekick!

Team Foundation Sidekicks - Team Foundation Sidekicks 2.2 is released (and with a new Sidekick too)!

“I am very proud to announce new Team Foundation Sidekicks release. In addition to numerous bug fixes and improvements, version 2.2 contains all new Permission Sidekick.

Let me start with minor changes and then present new Sidekicks family member.

Features

• Code Review Sidekick: Added work item association indication in changesets for review list (those associated with at least one WI, will have * next to changeset ID)
• Code Review Sidekick: Allow to compare version of file in view with previous not-in-view version
• Labels Sidekick: Allow saving to CSV list of changesets/work items in label
• Visual Studio integration: allow separate configuration of “Dynamic History” option for folders/files

Bug fixes

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Let me conclude with brand new Permission Sidekick features list. This Sidekick provides effective permissions view for the selected user (including global server, project, version control items and areas permissions) as well as the view what groups contribute to current effective permissions.

More specifically, Permission Sidekick lets you to

• Select user whose effective permissions are to be reviewed
• View Team Foundation Server groups user is a member of (Windows domain groups are not included)
• View user's global TFS server permissions
• Select Team project to view project specific effective permissions
• View user's Team project's permissions
• Select project's version control folder/file and view effective version control permissions for that item (including indication whether permissions are inherited or explicitly set)
• Select project's area and view effective permissions for that area
• For every effective permissions display, view a reason for every effective permission setting - namely, for which groups Allow/Deny permissions are set and therefore what effective permission is based on

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If you’ve ever played the TFS Permission game, then you’ll agree with me that this new sidekick sounds pretty darn useful and cool.

And it’s still freeware (for all usages scenarios :)

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