How to Move Azure DevOps Organization to New Organization

Azure DevOps doesn’t currently offer a built-in way to migrate an entire organisation. As Kidd_lp notes, you can mirror your Git repositories and export/import work items and YAML pipelines via REST or Excel, but boards and test plans have to be recreated. Some customers use the open-source Azure DevOps Migration Tools to copy boards and history between orgs, but that’s still a third-party solution and requires careful mapping and testing. Without such tooling you’ll need to rebuild boards/backlogs and reassign permissions manually. I recommend doing a trial migration in a test project to validate your process before committing.

Hi Kidd_lp

Thank you so much for the details.

Let me check these.

Thanks.

Azure DevOps does not support a direct, full organization-to-organization migration without third-party tools. However, you can manually migrate key components like repositories, work items, and pipelines using built-in features and APIs:

1. Git Repositories
•    Clone the repo from the old org: 

git clone --mirror https://dev.azure.com/abc-net/project/_git/repo

•    Push to the new org: 

git push --mirror https://dev.azure.com/abc-com/project/_git/repo

•    This preserves branches, tags, and commit history.
2. Work Items
•    Use Azure DevOps REST API or Excel integration: 
o    Export work items to Excel using the Azure DevOps Office Integration tool.
o    Re-import into the new org using Excel or REST API.
o    You will need to manually map fields, states, and IDs.
3. Build and Release Pipelines
•    Export YAML pipelines directly from the old org and import into the new one.
•    For classic pipelines: 
o    Use the Export to JSON feature (via REST API).
o    Recreate manually in the new org.
4. Boards, Backlogs, and Test Plans
•    No native export/import.
•    Use Excel or REST API to extract and recreate.
•    Consider manually recreating board configurations and test suites.