What’s an Early Adapter Access Level in Online Visual Studio

Question

Here is the new Access Level in Visual Studio "Early Adopter", could anyone explain what is the difference in this as compared to others? on Microsoft site, we have below information. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/security/access-levels?view=azure-devops

Harsh Gupta · Answer

I got one more answer. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-online-early-adoption-period-extended/

Rajanikant Hawaldar · Answer

VSTS automatically assigns them Basic features, if your account has seats available, or Stakeholder features, if not. -Microsoft Docs https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/accounts/add-organization-users?view=azure-devops&viewFallbackFrom=vsts&tabs=browser What this effectively means is that VSTS will upgrade your user to the highest available license when the user logs in. 1)Any unassigned Basic License registered to your account automatically get assigned to stakeholders as they log in. (based on Microsoft Docs) https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/accounts/add-organization-users?view=azure-devops&viewFallbackFrom=vsts&tabs=browser 2)The same auto upgrade happens when the user have some sort of MSDN license. (based on personal experience) So due to the auto upgrade process, trying to keep a user in the Stakeholder License as a means to restrict access might be a losing battle. You might want to modify permissions around this user instead or create a custom security group between Readers and Contributors.