# Azure DevOps Identities API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/microsoft-azure-devops/azure-devops-identities-api/  
**Provider:** Azure DevOps — https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-azure-devops/  
**Base URL:** https://vssps.dev.azure.com/{organization}/_apis/identities  
**Documentation:** https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/ims/

Azure DevOps Identities API is one of 62 APIs that [Azure DevOps](https://apis.io/providers/microsoft-azure-devops/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Group, Identities, and User. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

API for finding legacy identity descriptors for users and groups in Azure DevOps. Identities can be searched by name, email, ID, identity descriptor, and subject descriptor. Legacy identity descriptors are used by systems that rely on the identity management service, such as the security APIs for permissions management.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **Documentation** — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/ims/

## Other Azure DevOps APIs (12)

- [Azure DevOps Graph API](https://apis.io/apis/microsoft-azure-devops/azure-devops-graph-api/)
- [Azure DevOps Core API](https://apis.io/apis/microsoft-azure-devops/azure-devops-core-api/)
- [Azure DevOps Security API](https://apis.io/apis/microsoft-azure-devops/azure-devops-security-api/)
- [Azure DevOps Notifications API](https://apis.io/apis/microsoft-azure-devops/azure-devops-notifications-api/)
- [Azure DevOps Audit API](https://apis.io/apis/microsoft-azure-devops/azure-devops-audit-api/)
- [Azure DevOps Search API](https://apis.io/apis/microsoft-azure-devops/azure-devops-search-api/)
- [Azure DevOps Policy API](https://apis.io/apis/microsoft-azure-devops/azure-devops-policy-api/)
- [Azure DevOps Distributed Task API](https://apis.io/apis/microsoft-azure-devops/azure-devops-distributed-task-api/)
- [Azure DevOps Analytics OData API](https://apis.io/apis/microsoft-azure-devops/azure-devops-analytics-odata-api/)
- [Azure DevOps Extension Management API](https://apis.io/apis/microsoft-azure-devops/azure-devops-extension-management-api/)
- [Azure DevOps Service Endpoint API](https://apis.io/apis/microsoft-azure-devops/azure-devops-service-endpoint-api/)
- [Azure DevOps TFVC API](https://apis.io/apis/microsoft-azure-devops/azure-devops-tfvc-api/)

## Tags

Group, Identities, User

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