Security, Permissions, & Access documentation

Assign users to security groups, manage permissions, access levels, and billing for Azure DevOps.

Get started

Concept

• About permissions, access, and security groups

Quickstart

• View permissions

How-To Guide

• Add users to a team or project
• Request change in permissions
• Add or remove users or security groups

Access levels

Concept

• About access levels
• Stakeholder access quick reference

Quickstart

• Add users or groups to an access level (on-premises)

Tutorial

• Get started as a Stakeholder

Manage user access (cloud)

Quickstart

• Create an organization

How-To Guide

• Add users to your organization
• Connect your organization to Azure Active Directory
• Provide Stakeholders access to edit pipelines

Manage user access (on-premises)

Quickstart

• Change access levels

How-To Guide

• Add users or groups to a team or project

Manage billing

Overview

• Billing overview

How-To Guide

• Buy Basic access
• Set up billing for your organization
• Try Azure Test Plans for free

Authenticate, PATs, & secure applications

Concept

• About security, authentication, & authorization
• Authentication guidance

How-To Guide

• Use personal access tokens (PATs)
• Manage PATs via API
• Revoke user PATs
• Authorize access to REST APIs with OAuth 2.0

Secure projects

Overview

• Grant or restrict permissions to select tasks

Quickstart

• Look up a project administrator
• Change project-level permissions

How-To Guide

• Set object-level permissions

Quick reference guides

Overview

• Security quick reference index
• Default permissions quick reference
• Security management tools

Concept

• Security key concepts

Reference

• Permissions lookup guide
• Permissions and groups reference