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Right to use Azure DevOps through Visual Studio for a customer
If somebody is licensed for a Visual Studio Subscription, this implies he is entitled to the following "Subscribers get access to any number of accounts and don't count against your 5 free users."
However, does this imply that if he has one or more customers that he can use Azure DevOps also for the environments/subscriptions of his customers or not? If not, the customer needs to license this (external) person through a basic plan?
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Azure DevOps uses Visual Studio subscriptions for those license types. This is assigned by an organization to a user. If the users need access to another organization DevOps's they have two options.
- The user can bee added to the second organization via AzureAD B2B (Guest Account), then assign the guest account access to your DevOps.
- If the organization does not allow guest accounts, the user can assign a secondary email address to their Visual Studio Subscription profile. DevOps will then check on login if the email address has a subscription, as its a secondary email now it will be detected as a subscriber.
See the following URL for details: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/subscriptions/manage-vs-subscriptions
The on-premise version is a little different as you but should follow the same rules. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/user-guide/about-azure-devops-services-tfs?view=azure-devops
