Azure DevOps '401 - Uh-oh, you do not have access' Invited User

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I created my first organization and invited a user to it. The user receives the email invitation and appears as a member of the organisation and project. However, when they click join in the email invitation they are denied access.

The organisation is not connected to Azure Active Directory as suggested in Invited user Azure Devops project but they are unable to access it.

We have also tried troubleshooting connectivity as outlined by Microsoft docs.

Did you ask the user if while clicking the link it was previously logged already with some credentials to the Azure account? — Luke Duda, Jun 05 '20 at 10:48
I did ask but they were adamant they used one account. Anyways it's working now by using an incognito browser but thank you for your reply. — hshm, Jun 06 '20 at 09:33

score 25 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 05 '20 at 06:27

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You can try to create a new incognito window and sign in to your organization : https://dev.azure.com/{organizationName} with the invited account in this incognito window.

This is because when the user clicked the email invitation, this will automatically jump to the browser to use the default account cached by the browser to log in to the organization, and this default account could not be the invited account.

answered Jun 05 '20 at 06:27

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Somehow this worked despite having tried this yesterday as per the troubleshoot connectivity steps in MS docs. Thank you! – hshm Jun 06 '20 at 09:35
also try with different browser. some of browsers have not real incognito mode. – 8Unlimited8 Dec 01 '20 at 12:12
I was tried @Gnyasha answer after this and problem was solved! Congratulations to Microsoft!!! – Seyed Morteza Hosseini Jul 18 '21 at 19:11
I finally tried firefox for this problem and solved my problem. – Salar Afshar Feb 20 '22 at 13:22

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 03 '21 at 18:47

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You can clear browser cache ctrl + shift + R

answered Jan 03 '21 at 18:47

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That worked for me. The big problem is that when I refresh the org page sometimes it shows 401, sometimes it shows the correct page, but I believe this is temporarily as I just joined this new organization... – Catalin Pirvu Jun 20 '22 at 12:49

Umar Farooq · Answer 3 · 2021-06-01T06:19:42.480

Go to this link trouble shooting and there will be visual studio signout option and signout from there page pic

And you will be directed to azure.dev page where there will be two sign in options(one on the top right and other in the body. First sign in from top one and then from the one in the body(you will be redirected to previous page after signing up first one) and then you are good to go.

Even then if you are getting the same issue then try in incognito. It should work

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 08 '21 at 21:56

What worked for me (on Chrome) was:

First sign out of Azure DevOps
Then close all Azure DevOp tabs
Quit the browser application completely (i.e., actually right-clicking on the browser icon and clicking "quit"--not just closing all tabs)
Start the browser application back up
Try clicking on the email link again

I assume quitting of the browser application here accomplishes the same thing that clearing the cache might do. I'll add that I didn't have any other browsers open--I was only using Chrome. If you have multiple browsers open, you should quit all of them too.

score -1 · Answer 5 · edited Nov 10 '22 at 07:10

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This problem is fixed once you clear browser cache ctrl + shift + R

edited Nov 10 '22 at 07:10

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answered Nov 10 '22 at 06:56

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Azure DevOps '401 - Uh-oh, you do not have access' Invited User

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