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Dr. Ankita Mehta
Dr. Ankita Mehta

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Splitting Azure DevOps into two organizations in 15 days (Real-world case study, 2026)

The problem

A cybersecurity company needed to split its Azure DevOps environment into two separate organizations as part of a corporate restructuring.

This wasn’t a simple migration. It was a data split with dependency preservation.

What needed to happen

  • 6 Azure DevOps projects had to be divided
  • Work items had to be assigned to the correct new organization
  • Nothing could be lost: Comments, Attachments, History and Links between items
  • No downtime allowed during migration

Why this is tricky

If you’ve ever worked with Azure DevOps migrations, you know the complexity comes from:

  • Linked work items
  • Cross-referenced dependencies
  • Historical audit trails
  • Custom fields and relationships

Splitting makes this even harder because you’re not just moving data—you’re separating connected systems.

Data Migration Tool used: OM4ADO

The team used OpsHub Migrator for Microsoft Azure DevOps (OM4ADO).

It helped with:

  • Work item filtering and routing logic
  • Dependency-preserving migration
  • Metadata retention
  • Safe execution without disrupting active development

What happened during migration

  • 12,700 work items processed
  • Full history and attachments retained
  • Dependencies remained intact
  • Data cleanly split across two organizations
  • Completed within 15 days

Outcome

Both new Azure DevOps environments were fully operational with:

  • Clean data separation
  • No broken links
  • No missing history
  • No downtime impact

Takeaway

If you are dealing with Azure DevOps restructuring, the hardest part is not migration-it’s keeping relationships intact while splitting systems cleanly.

OM4ADO handled exactly that.

Planning a similar migration? Let’s talk

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