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Delete your organization

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Azure DevOps Services

When you no longer need an organization, you can delete it from Azure DevOps. If you change your mind within 28 days, you can recover your organization. After 28 days, your organization and all associated data get permanently deleted.

When you delete your organization, the following results occur:

  • Loss of access: Users immediately lose access to organization services and resources.
  • URL availability: Your organization URL becomes available for anyone to use, which might take up to one hour.
  • Organization disabled: Your organization is disabled and appears deleted in your profile for 28 days.
  • Billing unlinking: If your organization is linked to an Azure subscription for billing, you must unlink it before deletion. You're still charged for any paid users and services used during the current billing cycle. Billing stops after the current cycle ends.
  • Azure account access: Deleting an organization in Azure DevOps doesn't directly affect users' access to their Azure accounts in portal.azure.com. Users still retain access to Azure accounts and other services, as the deletion is specific to the Azure DevOps organization and its associated data.

Caution

In rare cases, our deletion process might take up to 70 days due to backend retries and the need to delete data from multiple sources.

Prerequisites

Category Requirements
Permissions Member of the Project Collection Administrators group. Organization owners are automatically members of this group.
Access levels At least Basic access.
Subscription If your organization uses an Azure subscription for billing, remove billing from your organization before deleting it in Azure DevOps.

Delete organization

To delete an organization, do the following steps.

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

  2. Select gear icon Organization settings.

    Screenshot showing highlighted Organization settings button.

  3. Select Overview > Delete.

    Screenshot of organization settings, with Overview and Delete highlighted

  4. In the resulting dialog box, enter the name of the organization, and then select Delete.

    Screenshot of Delete Account dialog box

  5. To review your organizations, go to your Visual Studio profile, where you can see your deleted organization.

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Your organization is deleted.

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