Organizations and teams documentation
You can use organizations to collaborate with a large number of people across many projects at once, while managing access to your data and customizing settings.
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About organizations
Organizations are shared accounts where businesses and open-source projects can collaborate across many projects at once, with sophisticated security and administrative features.
Creating a new organization from scratch
Create an organization to apply fine-grained access permissions to repositories.
Best practices for organizations
Learn GitHub-recommended practices for your organization.
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About Azure private networking for GitHub-hosted runners in your organization
You can create a private network configuration for your organization to use GitHub-hosted runners in your Azure Virtual Network(s) (VNET).
About custom repository roles
You can more granularly control access to your organization's repositories with custom repository roles.
About identity and access management with SAML single sign-on
If you centrally manage your users' identities and applications with an identity provider (IdP), you can configure Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) single sign-on (SSO) to protect your organization's resources on GitHub.
About networking for hosted compute products in your organization
You can manage private networking for GitHub-hosted products using network configurations in your organization.
About OAuth app access restrictions
Organizations can choose which OAuth apps have access to their repositories and other resources by enabling OAuth app access restrictions.
About organization teams
Teams are groups of organization members that reflect your company or group's structure with cascading access permissions and mentions.
About organizations
Organizations are shared accounts where businesses and open-source projects can collaborate across many projects at once, with sophisticated security and administrative features.
About programmatic access in your organization
As an organization owner, you can control access to your organization by personal access tokens, GitHub Apps, and OAuth apps.
About SCIM for organizations
With System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM), administrators can automate the exchange of user identity information between systems.