Remove user accounts from Azure Active Directory or Active Directory

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When a user with access to Azure DevOps leaves a company, an administrator would typically remove them from Azure Active Directory or Active Directory. This automatically voids their user account and remove their ability to access or connect to Azure DevOps.

In this article you'll find:

• A checklist to review when removing user accounts
• Links to articles for removing user accounts from AD or Azure AD

Consider when removing users

• Do users have any tokens that you need to revoke?
• Have you granted individual user accounts special permissions that need to be revoked?
• Have you reassigned work users you are removing to current team members?

Remove users from AD or Azure AD

For information on removing users from AD or Azure AD, see one of the following articles:

• Delete users from Azure AD
• Delete a User Account from Active Directory

Related articles

• About permissions and inheritance

• Change project-level permissions
• Change project collection-level permissions

• About security, authentication, and authorization