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Article version: Enterprise Server 2.21
Article version: Enterprise Server 2.21
Managing organization settings
Organization administrators can change several settings, including the names of repositories that belong to the organization and Owners team membership. In addition, organization admins can delete the organization and all of its repositories.
- Renaming an organization
- Transferring organization ownership
- Restricting repository creation in your organization
- Setting permissions for deleting or transferring repositories
- Restricting repository visibility changes in your organization
- Managing the forking policy for your organization
- Setting permissions for adding outside collaborators
- Allowing people to delete issues in your organization
- Setting team creation permissions in your organization
- Managing default labels for repositories in your organization
- Managing the display of member names in your organization
- Deleting an organization account
- Converting an organization into a user
- Integrating Jira with your organization project board
- Disabling project boards in your organization