Change Owners and Remove Previous Owner

We setup both a Visual Studio Online and Azure Development under my contract Developers account who is the sole owner at this time. I would like to know if we can change owners and then remove my current developer from any administrative roles. Also,
would all the development work and setup for VSO and Azure move without deleting work done to date? Further to this I would like to change the URL?

Hi pphawkins,
For Visual Studio Online account, you can ask the contract Developers to add your MS account to a team member of the Visual Studio Online account and then change the owner ship to your account. Check this
page for more details.
If the Visual Studio Online account is linked to an Azure subscription, you can also unlink it then relink to your own Azure subscription. If the development work is deployed to Auzre websites/cloud service, then you might continue
to keep the linking with former Azure subscription if you don't want to make changes. Or you can deploy to your own Azure websites/cloud service if you'd like to link your Azure subscription to your Visual Studio Online account. Another
other concerns related to Azure, you can also open a new thread in Azure forums. Thanks for your understanding.
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