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Create a project in Azure DevOps

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

Create an Azure DevOps project to establish a repository for source code and to plan and track work. You can manage and structure your project to support your business needs. Each project provides boundaries to isolate data from other projects. For more information, see About projects and scaling your organization.

Important

Select a version from Azure DevOps Content Version selector.

Select the version of this article that corresponds to your platform and version. The version selector is above the table of contents. Look up your Azure DevOps platform and version.

Note

If you don't want to manage an on-premises server, sign up for Azure DevOps Services and create a project.

Prerequisites

  • Organization: Have an organization. If you don't have one, create one.
  • Permissions: Be a member of the Project Collection Administrators group or have the collection-level "Create new projects" permission set to Allow. Organization owners are automatically members of this group.
  • Project collection: Have a project collection. If you don't have one, create one.
  • Permissions: Be a member of the Project Collection Administrators group or have the collection-level "Create new projects" permission set to Allow. Organization owners are automatically members of this group.

Important

To create a public project or make a private project public, enable additional policy settings to work with public projects, and then return to this article to create your project.

Create a project

You can create up to 1,000 projects within an organization in Azure DevOps. For more information, see Work tracking, process, and project limits.

Important

When you create a project from the web portal, Azure DevOps ignores several process template files. Specifically, the files that would create a Report Manager site aren't supported. You can add reports later by following the instructions provided in Add reports to a teams project.

There isn't a limit on the number of projects that you can create within a project collection, however for performance purposes, we recommend you limit the number to 300 or fewer. For more information, see Work tracking, process, and project limits.

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

  2. Select New project.

    Screenshot of listed projects and highlighted New projects button.

  3. Enter information into the form provided.

    • Provide a name for your project. Your project name can't contain special characters, such as / : \ ~ & % ; @ ' " ? < > | # $ * } { , + = [ ], can't begin with an underscore, can't begin or end with a period, and must be 64 or fewer characters.
    • Enter an optional description.
    • Choose the visibility, initial source control type, and work item process. For more information, see Choosing the right version control for your project and Choose a process.

    Screenshot of create new project form.

    When you choose public visibility, anyone on the internet can view your project. With private visibility, only users you give access to can view your project. For more information about features and access levels for public projects, see Make a private project public. If the Public option isn't available, you need to change the policy.

  4. Select Create. Azure DevOps displays the project welcome page.

    Screenshot of project creation confirmation dialog.

    Select one of the following options to continue:

  1. Sign in to your DevOps Server collection (https://<your-devops-server>/<your-organization>).

  2. Select New project. You can also create a project from a process.

    Screenshot of listed projects and highlighted New projects button.

  3. Enter information into the form provided.

    • Provide a name for your project. Your project name can't contain special characters, such as / : \ ~ & % ; @ ' " ? < > | # $ * } { , + = [ ], can't begin with an underscore, can't begin or end with a period, and must be 64 or fewer characters.
    • Enter an optional description.
    • Choose the visibility, initial source control type, and work item process. For more information, see Choosing the right version control for your project and About processes and process templates.

    Screenshot of create new project form.

    When you choose public visibility, anyone on the internet can view your project. With private visibility, only people who you give access to can view your project. For more information about public projects, see Create a public project in your organization. If the Public option isn't available, you need to change the policy.

  4. Select Create. Azure DevOps displays the welcome page.

    Screenshot of project creation confirmation dialog.

    Select one of the following options to continue:

List projects

View a list of projects from your web browser.

  1. Sign in to your organization (https://dev.azure.com/{yourorganization}).

  2. Select Organization settings and then select Projects.

    Screenshot of highlighted Project button and resulting list.

    Open your desired project. For more information, see About settings at the user, team, project, or organization-level.

  1. To view the projects defined for a collection, select Azure DevOps logo Azure DevOps to open the Projects page.

  2. Choose the collection to view the list of projects. The page lists the last two or three projects you connected to at the upper screen. Choose any project to connect to that project.

    Screenshot of projects list.

Or

Add a repository to your project

You can add Git (distributed) or TFVC (centralized) repositories to your project. You can create many Git repositories, but only a single TFVC repository for a project. More steps to address permissions might be required. For more information, see Use Git and TFVC repos in the same project.

Next steps

Structure your project

Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

A: If you receive an error message that states you don't have permission to create a project, you need to request organization-level permissions. See Change permissions at the organization- or collection-level.

A: If you receive an error message that states you don't have permission to create a project, you need to request collection-level permissions. See Change permissions at the organization or collection-level. If you have SQL Reporting Services installed in the collection, you also need permissions for reports to the Team Foundation Content Managers group.

Q: How do I resolve Error TF30321?

A: Error TF30321: The name you entered is already used for another project on the Team Foundation Server indicates that you should use a different name for your project. The name you entered is either in active use or is partially deleted, but not fully deleted.

Even when you deleted a project, you might get the same name error. Some components could be created or deleted even though others aren't. In this event, you can't reuse the name associated with the project.

Q: How do I add my custom process template to the list?

A: Upload your template using the Process Template Manager. For more information, see Customize process.

Q: Where is the log file located?

A: The log file is stored in $:\Users\user name\AppData\Local\Temp and labeled vso_TeamProjectCreation_yyyy_mm_dd_hh_mm_ss.log.

The log shows each action taken by the wizard at the time of the failure and might include more details about the error. You can review the log entries to find network or file related issues by searching for Exception or Error.

Q: How do I add SQL Server Reporting services?

A: See Add reports to a project.