October 24th, 2024

Using Entra profile information in Azure DevOps

We’re excited to announce the ability to use Entra profile information in Azure DevOps. This has been a long-standing feature request from the community (ex. profile, picture, email, and name). Beyond the convenience of configuring profile information in one place and ensuring the accuracy of personal information, using Entra profile information in Azure DevOps provides important security and compliance benefits for Enterprise customers.

Today we encourage users in Entra backed organizations to turn on Entra Profile information in Preview Features. When you do, your Azure DevOps profile will become read-only, and information will be populated from Entra instead.

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If you run into any issues using Entra profile information, please let us know! You can turn it off in preview features and restore your original profile information, and when you do, be sure to share detailed feedback. We’ll be reviewing the feedback carefully to address any concerns.

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We’ll start enabling this preview feature by default in the coming weeks. At that point, you’ll still be able opt-out and share feedback, but there will be no action required to start using it.

Once this feature reaches General Availability, Azure DevOps organizations connected to an Entra directory will read profile information only from Entra and it will not be editable by end users in Azure DevOps.

If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to leave a comment.

2 comments

  • Marc Rufer

    Great feature! Thank you for making this possible!
    I have one question regarding this.

    Is the preview feature only available on user level? I ask because I can't see it if I select "For this organization [...]" in the "Preview features" menu.
    If so, this would mean I have to disable it once it gets GA for admin accounts which do not have a mailbox so that I'm able to change the contact email to another...

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    • Andrew BrennerMicrosoft employee Author 5 mins ago

      Hi Marc,

      Yes, during the preview this feature is only available on a per user basis, not at an org level, but at GA, it will be the way Azure DevOps profile information works. At that point, there wouldn't be a way to edit your email in Azure DevOps, you would only be able to receive notifications to the email address configured in Entra.

      Feel free to reach out to me by email, I'd be happy to...

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