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Office 365 site collection admin not updated with O365 group owner
- You have to wait a bit for the owner to be granted site collection admin. There is a job or cache timeout that happens at some interval that adds them in the background. My guess is you tried to add them then immediately try to access this page. Owners are site collection admins, as members are members of the site.
Thanks Christopher, I checked back today and now the user that was added can access /mngsiteadmin.aspx. It took way longer than I expected, though.
When you're in a modern teamsite and click on the cog wheel choosing "site permissions" (translating from another language), the menu will show three groups:
- site owners
- site members
- site visitors
What's slightly confusing is that the O365 group is shown to be in "site owners" and "site members". However, when I go into /people.aspx the O365 group is only a member of the SharePoint security group "members of [siteTitle] but not "owners of [siteTitle].
Moreover it's confusing because if you put a user into "owners of [siteTitle]" he will get the "full control" permission level but is not a site collection admin. So essentially the "site owners" from the cog wheel shows users with different permission levels.
One more question. Is there're a PowerShell way to add users to either sub-group of the O365 group?
I'm able to get the members of each subgroup with "Get-UnifiedGroupLinks -LinkType" but how to I set them programatically?
Thanks.