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Preventing users from creating organizations

You can prevent users from creating organizations in your enterprise.

  1. In the top-right corner of GitHub Enterprise Server, click your profile picture, then click Enterprise settings.

    Screenshot of the dropdown menu shown when you click your profile picture on GitHub Enterprise Server. The "Enterprise settings" option is outlined.

  2. On the left side of the page, in the enterprise account sidebar, click Policies.

  3. Under Policies, click Options.

  4. Under "Users can create organizations", use the drop-down menu and click Enabled or Disabled.