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About accessing your organization via Azure AD

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Azure DevOps Services

Important

Azure DevOps no longer supports Alternate Credentials authentication since the beginning of March 2, 2020. If you're still using Alternate Credentials, we strongly encourage you to switch to a more secure authentication method (for example, personal access tokens). Learn more.

Learn about controlling access to your organization via Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). If your organization was created with a Microsoft account, connect your organization to your Azure Azure AD. Sign in to Azure DevOps with the same username and password that you use with your Microsoft services. Enforce policies for accessing your team's critical resources and key assets.

Note

To use existing on-premises identities with Azure DevOps, you can integrate directories with Azure AD by using Azure AD Connect. To switch your organization to another directory, learn how to change your directory in Azure AD.

How Azure AD controls access to Azure DevOps

Your organization authenticates users through its directory. Only users who are members or guests in that directory get access to your organization. Disabled or removed users from your directory have no access to your organization by any mechanism. For example, mechanisms such as personal access tokens (PATs) or SSH. Only specific Azure AD administrators manage users in your directory, so they control who gets access to your organization.

Without Azure AD, you're solely responsible for controlling organization access. All users must sign in with Microsoft accounts.

For more information, see Frequently asked questions about Azure access