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As your organization evolves, you might need to rename or remove a team to better align with new roles, projects, or organizational structures.
When you rename a team, the new name automatically propagates throughout Azure DevOps, ensuring consistency and avoiding confusion. The following team artifacts automatically get renamed:
- Team security group
- Team backlogs and boards
- Team dashboards
Automatic renaming maintains access controls, project tracking, and dashboard configurations without manual updates. Removing a team deletes its configurations and reassigns its members to other teams, ensuring workflow continuity and organizational clarity.
Tip
Update any queries that reference the old team security group name.
Deleting a team removes all configuration settings, including dashboards, backlogs, and boards. Work item data remains unchanged. Team configurations cannot be recovered after deletion.
Prerequisites
| Category | Requirements |
|---|---|
| Permissions | Member of the Project Administrators security group. |
Rename a team
Set a team as the default
When a project gets created, a default team also gets created based on the project name.
- Open Project settings > Teams.
- Select
More options next to the team you want as the new default, and then select Set team as project default.
Delete a team
You can delete any team except the default team. At least one team must be defined for a project.
Important
Deleting a team removes all team configuration settings (dashboards, backlogs, boards). Work item data remains unchanged. Team configurations cannot be recovered once deleted.