How to Move Azure DevOps Organization to New Organization

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How to Move Azure DevOps Organization to New Organization

Shabin Suresh 41

Dear Team,

We are using our existing Azure DevOps (abc.net), now we want to move to new org. (abc.com) without losing history, work items etc. Are there any options without 3rd party tools. Kindly advise.

Thanks & Regards,

Shabin

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Siddhesh Desai 1,425 Microsoft External Staff Moderator

Hi @Shabin Suresh

There's no inbuilt functionality in Azure Devops to move the Organization and Entire Project to new Organization or target organization. If you don't want to use third party tools you can move the work items, Pipeline, History, Repos by creating a script and using Azure Devops Rest API's.

You can create an automated script and call Azure Devops Rest API and Fetch the WorkItems, Pipelines, Repos with Get Request and call the Post API to Post the output payload from Get request in the Target Organization or Project to create the same set up.

Refer this links for more details on the same: a) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/?view=azure-devops-rest-7.2 > in the left pane check rest api's for different Azure Devops Services

b) https://medium.com/@aabeing/automate-the-export-of-work-items-from-azure-devops-board-with-rest-api-powershell-a7d0240ecc1b

c) https://www.baeldung.com/ops/azure-devops-migrating-project-different-organization

d) https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74793329/how-can-i-export-a-list-of-pipelines-from-azure-devops

Refer my answer here for more details: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5630894/how-to-move-organization-for-azure-devops-service

Shabin Suresh 41 Reputation points

2025-11-22T20:38:22.8733333+00:00

Hi Siddhesh Desai,

Thank you so much for the details.

Let me check these.

Thanks,
Shabin Suresh 41 Reputation points

2025-11-24T13:41:10.2433333+00:00

We have changed the owner of the subscription to the new organization and updated the billing account. Could you please advise if this is sufficient, or if any issues might occur when we hand over the old Cloud DevOps? Do we need to assign permissions for each project individually to the users?
Siddhesh Desai 1,425 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-11-25T11:08:11.3433333+00:00

It's better to keep 2 users with Owner role of your Azure subscription. And add that user in your new Azure Devops Organization as Project admin, So incase the previous owner sign in gets locked you have a backup account to access your devops portal. You can automate the assignment of permissions on each project by using the rest api's outlined here:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/memberentitlementmanagement/user-entitlements/add?view=azure-devops-rest-7.1&tabs=HTTP and this CLI https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/devops/user?view=azure-cli-latest
Siddhesh Desai 1,425 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator

2025-11-25T11:10:42.92+00:00

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Shabin Suresh 41 Reputation points

2025-11-25T11:48:43.7933333+00:00

Thank you so much. Is there any way to add existing user to new email without losing history.

Thanks,

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