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title: Create an Azure DevOps organization
description: "This is where the new Unified ALM guide starts. First, we'll configure an Azure DevOps organization and project for our repos and pipelines. If your company already has an Azure DevOps organization, you can skip this step and go to…"
url: "https://ariste.info/dynamics365almguide/create-an-azure-devops-organization/"
updated: "2024-12-29"
category: Unified experience ALM / Create and prepare Azure DevOps organization and project
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# Create an Azure DevOps organization

This is where the new Unified ALM guide starts. First, we'll configure an Azure DevOps organization and project for our repos and pipelines.

If your company already has an Azure DevOps organization, you can skip this step and go to [project creation](http://ariste.info/dynamics365almguide/create-azure-devops-project/).

## What's an Azure DevOps organization?

When you work in Visual Studio and connect it to an AZDO project, this project is inside an [organization](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/accounts/organization-management?view=azure-devops). Organizations are created at tenant-level and can represent different concepts:

- An entire company
- A branch
- A business unit
- A team

So it's up to you, and your business, to decide what your organization will be. A tenant can have multiple organizations. A small-mid company might have only one organization and have several projects in it, while bigger companies might have several organizations, splitting projects per department, for example.

So this is really the point when we should start planning and defining this.

## Create an Azure DevOps organization

The first step to create an Azure DevOps organization will be going to [https://dev.azure.com](https://dev.azure.com):

![Azure DevOps main page](http://ariste.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image-1024x449.png)
Azure DevOps main page

Click the "Start free" button. After logging in, it will take you to a sign-up form that asks for your Country/region. This is not where your Azure DevOps organization will be created, but where you are located:

![Create an Azure DevOps organization](http://ariste.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image-1-1024x844.png)
Select the region for your organization

After selecting our location, we must select a name for our new Azure DevOps organization:

![Select the name for the organization](http://ariste.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/image-2-1024x844.png)
Select the name for the organization

And now it's time for the first two decisions because we have to select the name of our organization, and in which [region](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/accounts/change-organization-location?view=azure-devops) we'll create our Azure DevOps organization. Unlike the previous screen, this is where we select the actual Azure region the organization is created. By default, your organization is associated with the closest geography based on your location.

The smartest and most common thing would be selecting the one nearest to you physically. If after creating your organization, you want to change the region, an organization administrator can do it.

A change is only possible between the following geographies:

- Australia
- Brazil
- Canada
- Asia Pacific
- Europe
- India
- United Kingdom
- United States

And after pressing the continue button, our organization will be created. Next step, [create a new project](http://ariste.info/dynamics365almguide/create-azure-devops-project/).

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