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Managing organizations in your enterprise

Organizations are great for creating distinct groups of users within your company, such as divisions or groups working on similar projects. Public and internal repositories that belong to an organization are accessible to members of other organizations in the enterprise, while private repositories are inaccessible to anyone but members of the organization that are granted access.

Configuring visibility for organization membership

You can set visibility for new organization members across your enterprise to public or private. You can also prevent members from changing their visibility from the default.

Preventing users from creating organizations

You can prevent users from creating organizations in your enterprise.

Requiring two-factor authentication for an organization

You can require organization members and outside collaborators to enable two-factor authentication for their personal accounts in an organization, making it harder for malicious actors to access an organization's repositories and settings.

Creating teams

Teams give organizations the ability to create groups of members and control access to repositories. Team members can be granted read, write, or admin permissions to specific repositories.

Adding people to teams

Once a team has been created, organization admins can add users from your GitHub Enterprise Server instance to the team and determine which repositories they have access to.

Removing users from teams and organizations

If a member of your organization no longer requires access to certain repositories, you can remove them from the team that allows that access. If a member of your organization no longer requires access to any repositories owned by the organization, you can remove them from the organization.