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Background: We have started discussing Azure DevOps. In last two articles of Azure DevOps we discussed

• Introductory part of Azure DevOps.
• Organizations in Azure DevOps

In this article we will move ahead and will discuss deletion and recovery of Microsoft Azure DevOps Organization.

Take away from this article: At the end of this article we will got to know about

• How to delete Azure DevOps Organization
• What happen when we delete Azure DevOps Organization
• Permission require to delete organization
• How to recover deleted Azure DevOps Organization
• Permission require to restore organization

How to delete Azure DevOps Organization :

• As discussed in last article, from Organization Settings Overview page – https://dev.azure.com/<organization name>/_settings/organizationOverview we could delete the organization as shown in below fig

• Once we clicked on “Delete” button as shown in above Fig, we will have “Delete organization” dialog as shown in below Fig

• On “Delete organization” dialog, we need to enter our organization name to enable the “Delete” button as shown in above fig
• Once we delete organization, we can recover it within 28 days but after 28 days organization and respective data will be deleted permanently.
• Also on delete organization we will be redirected to devops page – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/

What happen when we delete Azure DevOps Organization :

• All users access get removed from all organization services and resources
• URL of the organization is available to use. For example in our case if delete current organization – prashamsabadra then this organization name is available to use. It might take some time to get available organization name approximate around an hour
• Deleted organization get disabled immediately but shows in our visual studio profile for next 28 days

Permission require to delete organization : To delete organization we need Project Collection Administrator rights

How to recover deleted Azure DevOps organization :

• Login to our Visual Studio profile page – https://app.vsaex.visualstudio.com/me
• Once we logged in successfully we will have profile page as shown in below fig

• From the above fig there is option like – “Organization Pending Deletion – Expand“
• Click on “Expand” link we will get an option to restore the organization as shown in below fig

• Once we clicked on “Restore” link, we will have “Restore Organization” dialog as shown in below fig

• Click on “Restore” button from the “Restore Organization” dialog and our deleted organization will be restored successfully 🙂
• Once our organization is restored successfully, we will receive an email as well as –

• Email contains various details and links such as – Link to our Azure DevOps organization, Option to add users, our organization details and link to subscribe

Permissions require to restore Azure DevOps organization : To restore organization we need organization owner permission

Next Article : In next article we will discuss some more important Azure DevOps Organization settings

We have very good series going on Azure DevOps. Please have a look once – https://knowledge-junction.in/?s=Azure+DevOps

References:

• Delete your organization
• Recover your deleted organization in Azure DevOps

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