Look up a project collection administrator

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02/24/2023
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Azure DevOps Services | Azure DevOps Server 2022 - Azure DevOps Server 2019 | TFS 2018

The Project Collection Administrators group is the main administrative security group defined for an organization or project collection. Members of the Project Collection Administrators group have permissions to perform the following common tasks:

Add users to a collection
Create and manage all projects in the organization or collection
Create and manage all Inherited processes defined for a collection
Install and uninstall extensions
Add members and groups to the Project Collection Administrators group or any other project-level group
Manage permissions at all levels.

Add users to a collection
Create and manage all projects in the organization or collection
Create and manage all Inherited processes defined for a collection
Import and export On-premises XML process templates to a collection
Install and uninstall extensions
Add members and groups to the Project Collection Administrators group or any other project-level group
Manage permissions at all levels.

Add users to a collection
Create and manage all projects in the organization or collection
Import and export On-premises XML process templates to a collection
Install and uninstall extensions
Add members and groups to the Project Collection Administrators group or any other project-level group
Manage permissions at all levels.

To add members to the Project Collection Administrators group or change a project collection-level permission see Change project collection-level permissions.

For a description of each project collection-level group, see Security groups, service accounts, and permissions, Collection-level groups. To understand how security groups are used to manage permissions, see Get started with permissions, access, and security groups.

Prerequisites

You must be a member of the Project Collection Valid Users group to look up members of the Project Collection Administrators group. Users added to a project are automatically added to this group.

Note

Users added to the Project-Scoped Users group won't be able to access Organization Settings other than the Overview section if the Limit user visibility and collaboration to specific projects preview feature is enabled for the organization. To learn more, see Manage your organization, Limit user visibility for projects and more.

Show members of the Project Collection Administrators group

To find out who is a member of the Project Collection Administrators group, check the Permissions settings at the collection level.

Note

To enable the Organization Permissions Settings Page v2 preview page, see Enable preview features. The preview page provides a group settings page that the current page does not.

Choose the Azure DevOps logo to open your projects, and then choose Organization settings.
Choose Permissions under the Security group, and then Project Collection Administrators > Members tab.

To find out who is a member, check the Security settings at the collection level.

Choose the Azure DevOps logo to open Projects, and then choose Organization settings.
Choose Security, the Project Collection Administrators group, and then Members.