Sign up for Azure Boards

Azure DevOps Services

Sign up for Azure Boards to plan, track, and discuss your work across your teams. For more information, see What is Azure Boards?.

To sign up for all Azure DevOps Services, see Sign up, sign in to Azure DevOps.

Prerequisites

Category	Requirements
Browser	Latest version of one of the following web browsers: Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Safari (Mac), Firefox, or Chrome.

Sign up

Sign up for Azure Boards with either a Microsoft account or GitHub account.

Microsoft account

Sign up with a personal Microsoft account

1. If you don't have one, create a Microsoft account.

2. Go to Azure DevOps and select Get started with Azure.

3. Select either Try Azure for free or Pay as you go.

4. Enter your Microsoft account credentials and go through the sign-up process.

   Azure DevOps creates an organization:

   • If you signed up with a newly created Microsoft account, Azure DevOps creates a project named after your account.
   • If you signed up with an existing Microsoft account, create a project next.

   Sign in to your organization at any time: https://dev.azure.com/{Your_Organization}.

GitHub account

Sign up with a GitHub account

Note

If your GitHub email address is associated with an organization in Azure DevOps connected to Microsoft Entra ID, you can't sign in with your GitHub account. Sign in with your Microsoft Entra account instead.

1. If you don't have one, create a GitHub account.

2. Go to Azure DevOps and select Get started with Azure.

3. Select Sign in with GitHub.

4. Enter your account credentials and go through the sign-up process. You're asked to Authorize Microsoft-corp.

   Azure DevOps creates an organization. Sign in to your organization at any time https://dev.azure.com/{Your_Organization}. Azure DevOps turns on the External guest access policy by default.

   

An organization gets created based on the account you used to sign in. Sign in to your organization at any time, (https://dev.azure.com/{Your_Organization}).

You can rename and delete your organization, or change the organization location. For more information, see Manage organizations.

Enable GitHub invitations

Creating a new Azure DevOps organization with your GitHub username turns on the External guest access policy by default. For existing organizations, your administrator can turn on this capability via Organization settings > Policies tab.

Once the setting gets changed, sign out of Azure DevOps, and then from a fresh browser session, sign back in to the organization dev.azure.com/{Organization_Name} or organizationName.visualstudio.com with your GitHub credentials. You're recognized as a GitHub user and the GitHub invitation experience is available to you.

For more information about GitHub authentication, see Connect to GitHub/FAQs.

Optional: Change your organization or project settings

An organization is your container for projects, users, and other resources. It groups related projects and provides a centralized location for managing users, permissions, and billing. It also has tools for planning, tracking, and collaborating on projects.

For more information about changing your organization settings, see the following articles.

• Rename an organization
• Change the location of your organization

A project is a specific effort within an organization. Each project is associated with a specific team and can have its own set of permissions, settings, and configurations.

For more information about changing your project settings, see the following articles.

• Rename a project
• Delete a project
• Change the project visibility, public or private

Next steps

Add users or groups to your team or project

Related articles

• Track issues and tasks
• About access levels
• Define organizations and projects