Security, Permissions, & Access documentation

Assign users to security groups, manage permissions, access levels, and billing for Azure DevOps.

Get started

Concept

• About permissions, access, and security groups
• About authentication, authorization, & security policies
• Authentication guidance for Azure DevOps
• Security checklist

Quickstart

• View permissions

How-To Guide

• Add users to a team or project
• Request change in permissions
• Add or remove users or security groups

Manage access

Concept

• About access levels
• Stakeholder access quick reference
• Replace PATs with Microsoft Entra tokens

Quickstart

• Change access levels (on-premises)
• Add users or groups to a team or project (on-premises)

Tutorial

• Get started as a Stakeholder

How-To Guide

• Create an organization
• Add users to your organization
• Connect your organization to Microsoft Entra ID

Secure Azure Boards

Overview

• Secure your Azure Boards
• Default permissions and access to Azure Boards

How-To Guide

• Set work tracking & plan permissions
• Add members to a team administrator role
• Set query permissions

Secure analytics & reporting

Overview

• Secure your analytics & reporting

How-To Guide

• Set dashboard permissions
• Create Analytics views
• Configure Power BI connections

Secure organizations and projects

Overview

• Grant or restrict permissions to select tasks
• Optimize permissions for performance
• Use security automation scripts

Quickstart

• Look up a project collection administrator
• Change permissions at the organization or collection-level
• Look up a project administrator
• Change project-level permissions

How-To Guide

• Set object-level permissions

Quick reference guides

Overview

• Default permissions quick reference

Reference

• Permissions lookup guide
• Permissions and groups reference