Associate personal VSTS to an Organisation

Question

When I created VSTS account, mistakenly I have chosen Personal instead of Work,School... (as you can see on the picture)

Now I need to associate it with my organisation account. I search a lot and I couldn't find anything useful.

Please guide me to solve this problem.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 29 '18 at 16:30

Sorry, you can't associate personal VSTS to an Organisation Although both identities use the same email address, they're still separate identities with different profiles, security settings, and permissions.

Please see the Q&A below:

Why must I choose between a "work or school account" and my "personal account"?

Choose Work or school account if you want to use your organization's directory to authenticate VSTS users and to control VSTS account access. This limits access to members in your organization's directory. All other users must sign in with work or school accounts too.

Choose Personal account if you want to use your Microsoft account with VSTS. All other users must sign in with Microsoft accounts too.

If you feel annoying about the pop-up, you could just follow the link to rename your personal Microsoft account.
If you are worrying about the subscribers：

Within the Visual Studio subscriber portal, you may be able to add an alternate identity--in addition to the identity you used during activation. Today we allow you to add an alternate identity if you used a Microsoft account to activate your subscription. This way you can also add a work or school account (which you use when logging into Visual Studio, Office 365, or your corporate or school network), allowing you to access VSTS using both your personal account and your work or school account.

Detail steps please take a look at：How to add an alternate identity to your Visual Studio subscription

If you can't sign in when choose both please see: Why can't I sign in after I choose either "personal Microsoft account" or "work or school account"?

Thank you so much for all the information. It was solved by connecting VSTS to Azure active directory. — peyman gilmour, Mar 30 '18 at 16:16

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 29 '18 at 12:33

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Check this link to associate your personal account with a organization account.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/release-notes/2018/mar-05-vsts#subscriptions

answered Mar 29 '18 at 12:33

Rodrigo Werlang

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Thanks for the information. I was solved just by connecting VSTS to Azure active directory – peyman gilmour Mar 30 '18 at 16:17

Associate personal VSTS to an Organisation

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