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Silver Contributor

Nov 16, 2016

Best Practices for Permissions on an O365 Group SharePoint Site

So it seems that you can break permissions of individual lists/libraries/items, but you can't actually set permissions on the site as a whole? Am I missing something when looking at configuring gene...

Office 365 Groups

Vipul Kelkar

Brass Contributor

Mar 06, 2017

Can somebody please shed some light here -

When an Office 365 group is created, the Owners group in the Sharepoint team site has no user added to it !

Now, when we reduce the permissions of the Members group to contribute, there is no user in the site, who can then manage the permissions on the site !!

Its strange, why isn't the user who created the Office 365 group added as an Owner in the site. Or am I missing something here ?

Robse

MVP

Mar 07, 2017

Hi Vipul Kelkar,

I guess, this is a GUI issue, because I have the same problem. I cannot see the users in the regarding groups. However, when I check the permissions, I can see that regarding users should have permission due to the membership of regarding permission group.

Microsoft would say, this is by Design, although it's actually a GUI bug. ;-) Hope, this will be fixed.

Vipul Kelkar
Brass Contributor
Mar 08, 2017
Ah ! well thanks for that. So the user IS an owner in the site.