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Article version: Enterprise Server 2.17

Setting team creation permissions in your organization

You can allow all organization members to create teams or limit team creation to organization owners.

Organization owners can set team creation permissions.

If you do not set team creation permissions, all organization members will be able to create teams by default.

  1. In the top right corner of GitHub Enterprise, click your profile photo, then click Your profile.
    Profile photo
  2. On the left side of your profile page, under "Organizations", click the icon for your organization.
    organization icons
  3. Under your organization name, click Settings.
    Organization settings button
  4. In the left sidebar, click Member privileges.
    Member privileges option in org settings
  5. Under "Team creation rules", select or deselect Allow members to create teams.
    Checkbox to allow members to create teams
  6. Click Save.

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