# Roles for Visual Studio subscriptions with GitHub Enterprise reference

Learn about the different roles required to set up Visual Studio subscriptions with GitHub Enterprise.

Visual Studio subscriptions with GitHub Enterprise is a combined offering and knowledge of roles in both systems is useful.

## Visual Studio roles

| Role                    | Description                                                | More information                                                                                                                           |
| :---------------------- | :--------------------------------------------------------- | :----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Subscriptions admin** | Person who assigns licenses for Visual Studio subscription | [Overview of admin responsibilities](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/subscriptions/admin-responsibilities) in Microsoft Docs |
| **Subscriber**          | Person who uses a license for Visual Studio subscription   | [Visual Studio Subscriptions documentation](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/subscriptions/) in Microsoft Docs                |

## GitHub roles

| Role                   | Description                                                                                                                              | More information                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| :--------------------- | :--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Enterprise owner**   | Person who has a personal account that's an administrator of an enterprise on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance                     | [Abilities of roles in an enterprise](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/managing-accounts-and-repositories/managing-roles-in-your-enterprise/abilities-of-roles#enterprise-owners) in the GitHub Enterprise Cloud documentation. |
| **Organization owner** | Person who has a personal account that's an owner of an organization in your team's enterprise on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance | [Roles in an organization](/en/enterprise-server@3.22/organizations/managing-peoples-access-to-your-organization-with-roles/roles-in-an-organization#organization-owners) in the GitHub Enterprise Cloud documentation.          |
| **Enterprise member**  | Person who has a personal account that's a member of an enterprise on your GitHub Enterprise Server instance                             | [Abilities of roles in an enterprise](/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/managing-accounts-and-repositories/managing-roles-in-your-enterprise/abilities-of-roles#users)                                                           |