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About Visual Studio subscriptions with GitHub Enterprise

You can give Visual Studio subscribers on your team access to GitHub Enterprise with a combined offering from Microsoft.

Hinweis

Usage-based billing is not currently supported for Visual Studio-Abonnements mit GitHub Enterprise.

Visual Studio-Abonnements mit GitHub Enterprise ist ein kombiniertes Angebot von Microsoft, das es einem Abonnenten ermöglicht, sowohl Visual Studio als auch GitHub Enterprise zu verwenden. Visual Studio-Abonnements mit GitHub Enterprise is available from Microsoft under the terms of the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement. For more information, see Visual Studio-Abonnements mit GitHub Enterprise on the Visual Studio website.

To use the GitHub Enterprise portion of the license, each subscriber's personal account on GitHub must be or become a member of an organization owned by your enterprise on GitHub. To accomplish this, organization owners can invite new members to an organization by email address. The subscriber can accept the invitation with an existing personal account or create a new account.

For more information about the setup of Visual Studio-Abonnements mit GitHub Enterprise, see Setting up Visual Studio subscriptions with GitHub Enterprise.

About licenses for Visual Studio-Abonnements mit GitHub Enterprise Cloud

After you assign a license for Visual Studio-Abonnements mit GitHub Enterprise Cloud to a subscriber, the subscriber will use the GitHub Enterprise portion of the license by joining an organization in your enterprise with a personal account on GitHub. If the verified email address for the personal account of an enterprise member on GitHub matches the User Principal Name (UPN) for a subscriber to your Visual Studio account, the Visual Studio subscriber will automatically consume one license for Visual Studio-Abonnements mit GitHub Enterprise Cloud.

Hinweis

For Enterprise Managed User only, to make sure a user account consumes a Visual Studio license, ensure the Visual Studio UPN matches the SCIM userName attribute or the email address from the linked identity on the GitHub account.

The total quantity of your licenses for your enterprise on GitHub is the sum of any standard GitHub Enterprise licenses and the number of Visual Studio subscription licenses that include access to GitHub.

If the personal account for an enterprise member does not correspond with the email address for a Visual Studio subscriber, an enterprise owner can manually match the accounts to consolidate licenses. Under the terms of service, the GitHub account and Visual Studio subscription must belong to the same person.

For more information about GitHub Enterprise, see GitHub-Pläne. For more information about accounts on GitHub, see Arten von GitHub-Konten.

You can view the number of GitHub Enterprise licenses available to your enterprise on GitHub.com. The list of pending invitations includes subscribers who are not yet members of at least one organization in your enterprise. For more information, see Viewing usage for your GitHub Enterprise plan and Anzeigen von Personen in deinem Unternehmen.

Tipp

If you download a CSV file with your enterprise's license usage in step 6 of Viewing usage for your GitHub Enterprise plan, any members with a missing value for the "Name" or "Profile" columns have not yet accepted an invitation to join an organization within the enterprise.

You can also see pending GitHub Enterprise invitations to subscribers in das Administratorportal für Visual Studio-Abonnements.

About licenses for GitHub Enterprise Server

Wenn du GitHub Enterprise kaufst, erhältst du sowohl auf GitHub Enterprise Cloud als auch GitHub Enterprise Server Zugriff. For more information, see Informationen zu GitHub für Unternehmen.

For users only on GitHub Enterprise Server, each Visual Studio subscriber will only consume one license as long as the email address associated with their GitHub Enterprise Server account matches their Visual Studio UPN. For users on both GitHub Enterprise Server and GitHub Enterprise Cloud, only one license will be consumed as long as you follow the instructions in the 'About licenses for Visual Studio-Abonnements mit GitHub Enterprise Cloud' section, and the user's accounts are linked as described in Syncing license usage from GitHub Enterprise Server to Cloud.

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