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title Look Up Project Collection Administrator
titleSuffix Azure DevOps
description Learn how to identify members of the Project Collection Administrators group in Azure DevOps.
ms.subservice azure-devops-security
ms.author chcomley
author chcomley
ms.topic how-to
monikerRange <= azure-devops
ms.date 08/12/2025
ms.custom security-refresh, sfi-image-nochange

Look up a project collection administrator

[!INCLUDE version-lt-eq-azure-devops]

The Project Collection Administrators group is a pivotal security group within an organization or collection, with members empowered to do the following tasks: ::: moniker range="azure-devops"

  • Add users to a collection
  • Create and manage projects within an organization or collection
  • Define and oversee inherited processes for a collection
  • Install and uninstall extensions
  • Modify group memberships, including adding members to the Project Collection Administrators group or other project-level groups
  • Manage permissions across all levels ::: moniker-end ::: moniker range="< azure-devops"
  • Add users to a collection
  • Create and manage projects within an organization or collection
  • Create and manage Inherited processes defined for a collection
  • Import and export on-premises XML process templates to a collection
  • Install and uninstall extensions
  • Add members and groups to the Project Collection Administrators group or any other project-level group
  • Manage permissions across all levels ::: moniker-end

Organization owners are automatically members of this group. To add members to the Project Collection Administrators group or change a project collection-level permission, see Change permissions at the organization or collection-level.

For more information, see About permissions and security groups.

Prerequisites

[!INCLUDE prerequisites-project-collection-valid-users-group]

Show members of the Project Collection Administrators group

::: moniker range="azure-devops"

To identify members of the Project Collection Administrators group, follow these steps.

  1. Select the :::image type="icon" source="../../media/icons/project-icon.png" border="false"::: Azure DevOps logo to open your projects, and then select :::image type="icon" source="../../media/icons/gear-icon.png" border="false"::: Organization settings.

    :::image type="content" source="../../media/open-organization-settings-preview.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing Opening Organization settings.":::

  2. Select Permissions > Project Collection Administrators > Members.

    :::image type="content" source="media/project-collection/project-collection-admins-members-tab-s157.png" alt-text="Screenshot of Security, Project Collection Administrators group, Members tab.":::

::: moniker-end

::: moniker range="< azure-devops"

To identify members, follow these steps.

  1. Select the :::image type="icon" source="../../media/icons/project-icon.png" border="false"::: Azure DevOps logo to open Projects, and then select Organization settings.

    :::image type="content" source="../../pipelines/agents/media/agent-pools-tab/organization-settings.png" alt-text="Screenshot of opening Organization settings.":::

  2. Select Security > Project Collection Administrators > Members.

    :::image type="content" source="media/view-permissions/collection-admins-vert.png" alt-text="Screenshot of Security, Project Collection Administrators group, Members tab.":::

::: moniker-end

The display shows a list of users who are part of the Project Collection Administrators group.

Next step

[!div class="nextstepaction"] Look up a project administrator

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