What is the difference between a TFS team and a TFS group?

Question

When managing a project, I can edit permissions at the team project level. The web interface allows you to manage:

• Teams
• TFS groups

However, I cannot find any indication of how they differ. Empirically, I would expect the Team to be part of several TFS groups, however, it looks like a Team can combine both teams and groups, and vice versa.

Any idea on how they differ? Are warnings available only to teams?

Answer 1

In TFS, a team is just a way of recognizing a team or teams that you already have, whether it's one team working on a project, or twenty. TFS turns the often intangible details of who the team is, what the team is doing, and when the team expects to do so, into traceable, easy-to-use information on each of these aspects.

Team Foundation security is based on users and groups. You can help ensure the security of your Team Foundation Server deployment by properly assigning permissions to users and groups, and make sure that you only add users to groups if they really need permissions associated with that group. These permissions allow users to access only the data and functions that they require for their tasks, depending on their roles and responsibilities in your team, and help protect data that should be restricted to access.

• Team understanding
• Security groups

Answer 2

The TFS command is used to group users. TFS groups contain security.

Starting from TFS 2012, you can create unique and separate teams within the framework of a single team project that contains BWI, sprints, etc. Each team is assigned a parent iteration, which helps organize reporting for this team. Teams help the organization avoid creating multiple team projects for each team, which provides greater flexibility in managing subgroups within a team project.