How can I create a public project?

Question

So I am testing Azure DevOps for learning, and I need to either create a public project or change my current project from private to public, however I cannot do it, and I don't see any Organization policy for allowing public projects.

Just to be clear, I am the owner of the account, the organization, everything, nobody else is in charge of it, is personal, not related to my job or any company I've worked with, and I am willing to pay if required, just tell me how to change the organization policy for allowing public projects.

When creating a new project I always see the message "Want to create a public project? Try GitHub", but I don't know what that means. I'm desperate because I'm experimenting for a future technical interview and this is taking me too long to get around. Thank you for any ideas.

Answer 1

Follow https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/projects/create-project?view=azure-devops&tabs=browser

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

• Browser
• Team Explorer
• Azure DevOps CLI

1. Sign in to your organization (https://dev.azure.com/{Your_Organization}).
2. Select New project.
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.
   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. Select one of the following options to continue:
   • Invite: Add others to your project. See Add users to a project or team. You can only invite users who are already in your organization. For more information, see Add users to a project.
   • Boards: Add work items. See View and add work items using the Work Items page.
   • Repos: Clone or import a repository or initialize a README file for your project summary page. See Clone an existing Git repo.
   • Pipelines: Define a pipeline. See Azure Pipelines documentation.
   • Test Plans: Define test plans and test suites. See Create test plans and test suites.
   • Artifacts: Discover, install, and publish NuGet, npm, and Maven packages. See the Azure Artifacts overview.
   • Manage your services: Disable the visibility of services. See Turn a service on or off.You can create up to 1,000 projects within an organization in Azure DevOps. For more information, see Work tracking, process, and project limits.
   • Browser
   • Team Explorer
   • Azure DevOps CLI
   1. Sign in to your organization (https://dev.azure.com/{Your_Organization}).
   2. Select New project.
   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.
      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. Select one of the following options to continue:
      • Invite: Add others to your project. See Add users to a project or team. You can only invite users who are already in your organization. For more information, see Add users to a project.
      • Boards: Add work items. See View and add work items using the Work Items page.
      • Repos: Clone or import a repository or initialize a README file for your project summary page. See Clone an existing Git repo.
      • Pipelines: Define a pipeline. See Azure Pipelines documentation.
      • Test Plans: Define test plans and test suites. See Create test plans and test suites.
      • Artifacts: Discover, install, and publish NuGet, npm, and Maven packages. See the Azure Artifacts overview.
      • Manage your services: Disable the visibility of services. See Turn a service on or off.

If you want to switch between the public and private visibility for a project, follow https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/projects/make-project-public?view=azure-devops

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Marcin

Answer 2

Hi Diego Castillo Giraldo

Could you please check the below things:

1. Your organization to be connected to Microsoft Entra ID.
2. You must be a member of the Project Collection Administrators group
3. The “Allow public projects” toggle to be visible under Organization Settings -> Policies, but this only appears if Entra ID is properly linked.
4. Could you please go to User Settings -> Preview Features -> Toggle to on for all the features and check once and also go to Project Settings -> Permissions -> Ensure you must be part of Project Administrator and then check Permissions -> Set Allow to all permissions.

Hope this helps!

Please Let me know if you have any queries.

Answer 3

I have enabled entraID but still dont see that option to make the repo public

Answer 4

我有一樣的問題，新創的azure devops賬號無法使用