Create an organization
Azure DevOps Services | Azure DevOps Server 2022 - Azure DevOps Server 2019
Use an organization to connect groups of related projects and help scale up your enterprise. You can use a personal Microsoft account, GitHub account, or a work or school account. Using your work or school account automatically connects your organization to your Microsoft Entra ID.
Note
All organizations must be manually created via the web portal. Automated creation of organizations is not supported. However, we do support automated organization configuration, project creation, and resource provisioning via the REST API.
Prerequisites
- Authentication: Determine whether you want to use only Microsoft accounts or authenticate users with Microsoft Entra ID. For more information, see Choosing your organization administrator account type.
- Planning: Understand how to plan your organizational structure.
Create an organization
Sign in to Azure DevOps.
Select New organization.
Enter the name for your organization, select its hosting geography, and then select Continue.
Important
Adhere to the following guidelines when you create an organization name.
- Use only letters from the English alphabet
- Start your organization name with a letter or number
- Use letters, numbers, or hyphens after the initial character
- Ensure that your organization doesn't exceed 50 Unicode characters
- End with a letter or number
If you use any of the disallowed characters, you get the following error message: VS850015: The specified name is not allowed to be used: {Organization name}.
Congratulations, you're an organization owner!
Sign in to your organization at any time, https://dev.azure.com/{yourorganization}.
With your organization, the following aspects are included in the free tier:
- First five users free (Basic license)
- Azure Pipelines
- One Microsoft-hosted CI/CD (one concurrent job, up to 30 hours per month)
- One self-hosted CI/CD concurrent job
- Azure Boards: Work item tracking and boards
- Azure Repos: Unlimited private Git repos
- Azure Artifacts: Two GiB free per organization