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Setting team creation permissions in your organization

You can allow all organization members to create teams or limit team creation to organization owners.

Organization owners can set team creation permissions.

If you do not set team creation permissions, all organization members will be able to create teams by default.

  1. In the upper-right corner of GitHub Enterprise Server, select your profile photo, then click Your organizations.

    Screenshot of the dropdown menu under @octocat's profile picture. "Your organizations" is outlined in dark orange.

  2. Next to the organization, click Settings.

  3. In the "Access" section of the sidebar, click Member privileges.

  4. Under "Team creation rules", select or deselect Allow members to create teams.

  5. Click Save.