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Questions on the new Ownerless Groups Policy
Hi Chris,
I've been working with this policy recently. Some thoughts.
1. The policy will send invitation next day, then weekly. If the group became ownerless after the policy is configured the policy works against this group the same way - it sends message next day.
2. Two first served basis. As per Microsoft, only two members can be moved to group owners via the policy. When a group got two owners - invitation message actionable item for the rest will be converted from "Would you like to be a group owner?" to "MemberName1 and MemberName2 have already agreed to become group owners." with no "Yes" and "No" buttons.
Actually, we consider Microsoft's policy to do massive orphan groups remediation, then, going forward - we are looking 3-rd party solutions that prevents groups to become ownerless.
Some my other findings:https://vladilen.com/office-365/ownerless-microsoft-365-groups-teams-and-sites/
It'd be great if you share your experience on this.
- Hi Vladilen,
Thanks for sharing. We've been running the policy for a few months. All in all works, however been having an issue with an error message when saving the policy. Microsoft has noted this as a known issue pretty much from the start and says it'll work anyway. It does work, but in our case it seems it won't save the custom email text, but send the default one. Configuring it as GA and shouldn't be related to licenses as we possess the required one for all users (but this only seem to matter if using sec groups anyway which we are not). Have recently opened case with MS so will see what they say about it.
