Add or remove a team administrator

Azure DevOps Services | Azure DevOps Server 2022 - Azure DevOps Server 2019

Learn how to add or remove team administrators. We recommend having multiple users with administration permissions for redundancy. Team administrators can manage teams and configure team tools and oversee projects. Remove a user's administration permissions if the user is no longer active.

To add a team, see Add teams. To add or remove a project administrator, see Change project-level permissions.

Prerequisites

  • Permissions: Be a member of the Project Administrators group, or a team administrator for the team you want to update.
  • Access: To get added as a team administrator, have at least Basic access and ask another team administrator or a member of the [Project Administrators] (../security/look-up-project-administrators.md) group.

Add an administrator

Note

To enable the user interface for the New Teams Page, see Manage or enable features.

  1. Sign in to your organization (https://dev.azure.com/{Your_Organization}) and select a project.

  2. Select Project settings > Teams.

    Screenshot of Project settings and Teams buttons for selection.

  3. Select the team to configure, and then select Settings > Add.

    Screenshot of dialog for adding user identity, new teams page view for Azure DevOps Services.

  4. Enter the user's identity you want to add to the administrator role, and then select Save.

    Screenshot of Add team administrator dialog on the New Teams page.

  1. Select Project settings > Teams.

    Screenshot of selected Project settings and Teams buttons.

  2. Select the team to configure, and then select Settings > Add.

    Screenshot of the Add button for selection.

  3. Enter the user identity that you want to add to the administrator role, and then select Save.

    Screenshot of Add team administrator dialog on current page for Azure DevOps Server 2019 and up.


Remove an administrator

Each team has at least one administrator. To remove an administrator, first add at least a second administrator.

Open the Teams page as described in the previous section.

Select Settings and scroll down to the Administrators section. Select remove icon for the user that you want to remove as a team administrator.

Screenshot of X selected to remove team administrator.

From the Administrators section, choose delete icon for the user that you want to remove as a team administrator.

Screenshot shows removing a team administrator.

Next steps