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Enterprise Server 3.17 is currently available as a release candidate.

Enforcing policies for projects in your enterprise

You can enforce policies for projects within your enterprise's organizations, or allow policies to be set in each organization.

Who can use this feature?

Enterprise owners can enforce policies for projects in an enterprise.

About policies for projects in your enterprise

You can enforce policies to control how enterprise members manage projects, or you can allow organization owners to manage policies for projects at the organization level.

Enforcing a policy for organization-wide projects

Across all organizations owned by your enterprise, you can enable or disable organization-wide projects, or allow owners to administer the setting on the organization level.

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

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

  2. At the top of the page, click Policies.

  3. Under " Policies", click Projects.

  4. Under "Organization projects", review the information about changing the setting. Optionally, to view the current configuration for all organizations in the enterprise account before you change the setting, click View your organizations' current configurations.

    Screenshot of a policy in the enterprise settings. A link, labeled "View your organizations' current configurations", is outlined.

  5. Under "Organization projects", select the dropdown menu and click a policy.