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Managing organization settings
Organization owners can change several settings, including the names of repositories that belong to the organization and Owners team membership. In addition, organization owners can delete the organization and all of its repositories.
- Verifying or approving a domain for your organization
- Renaming an organization
- Transferring organization ownership
- Restricting repository creation in your organization
- Setting permissions for deleting or transferring repositories
- Restricting repository visibility changes in your organization
- Managing the forking policy for your organization
- Disabling or limiting GitHub Actions for your organization
- Configuring the retention period for GitHub Actions artifacts and logs in your organization
- Setting permissions for adding outside collaborators
- Allowing people to delete issues in your organization
- Enabling or disabling GitHub Discussions for an organization
- Managing discussion creation for repositories in your organization
- Managing the commit signoff policy for your organization
- Restricting deploy keys in your organization
- Setting team creation permissions in your organization
- Creating an announcement banner for your organization
- Managing the default branch name for repositories in your organization
- Managing default labels for repositories in your organization
- Managing the display of member names in your organization
- Managing the publication of GitHub Pages sites for your organization
- Archiving an organization
- Deleting an organization account
- Converting an organization into a user
- Disabling projects in your organization
- Managing base permissions for projects
- Allowing project visibility changes in your organization
- Creating rulesets for repositories in your organization
- Managing rulesets for repositories in your organization
- Managing custom properties for repositories in your organization