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

Use an organization to connect groups of related projects, and help to scale up your enterprise. You can use a personal Microsoft account, GitHub account, or a work or school account. Use your work or school account to automatically connect your organization to your Microsoft Entra ID.

Note

All organizations must be manually created via the web portal. We don't support automated creation of organizations. We do support automated organization configuration, project creation, and resource provisioning via REST API.

Prerequisites

Important

Adhere to the following guidelines when you create an organization name.

  • Use only letters from the English alphabet
  • Start your organization name with a letter or number
  • Use letters, numbers, or hyphens after the initial character
  • Ensure that your organization doesn't exceed 50 Unicode characters
  • End with a letter or number

If you use any of the disallowed characters, you get the following error message: VS850015: The specified name is not allowed to be used: {Organization name}.

Create an organization

  1. Sign in to Azure DevOps.

  2. Select New organization.

    Select New organization

  3. Confirm information, and then select Continue.

    Create your organization in Azure DevOps

    Taking you to your organization notification

    Congratulations, you're an organization owner!

    Sign in to your organization at any time, https://dev.azure.com/{yourorganization}.

Create a project collection

A project collection is a container of projects. By grouping projects together, you can manage projects more efficiently and assign the same resources to those projects.

For more information about how to create a project collection, see Create a project collection.

With your organization, the following aspects are included in the free tier:

  • First five users free (Basic license)
  • Azure Pipelines
    • One Microsoft-hosted CI/CD (one concurrent job, up to 30 hours per month)
    • One self-hosted CI/CD concurrent job
  • Azure Boards: Work item tracking and Kanban boards
  • Azure Repos: Unlimited private Git repos
  • Azure Artifacts: Two GiB free per organization

Next steps

Create a project