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Anonymous
Nov 15, 2016

Changing Access Type via PowerShell

I need to change all Public Groups to Provate Groups. So I am attempting to run:   Get-UnifiedGroup | Where {$_.AccessType -eq "Public"} | Set-UnifiedGroup -AccessType Private   I keep getting th...
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jcgonzalezmartin
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Nov 15, 2016

Mmm...very weird, I have just pasted your PS code in the PowerShell console and I have not had any error...however I'm seeing a warning seeing that the comand execution finished correctly, but not configuration has been modified for every group on the tenant. If I run the Set-UnifiedGroup "Group Name" -AccessType "Public" it works without problems....and also to add, it's not enougt (I believe) to be Global Administrator to change this setting for each Group. You need to be an Owner in each Group...adding some more folks here TonyRedmond cfiessinger VasilMichev

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jcgonzalezmartin
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Nov 15, 2016
And more funny stuff: PowerShell says that the Group I changed to Public is Public...but the UI says it's Privated (Previous status)...^-^
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    TonyRedmond
    MVP
    Nov 15, 2016

    I just tried it here and was able to run Set-UnifiedGroup to set the access type for a group from public to private and vice versa.

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      jcgonzalezmartin
      MVP
      Nov 15, 2016
      Ey Tony I have just verified that the change was finally done, so it seems it can take some time to propagate the change from public to private for a Group when using PowerShell...Is it correct you need to be a Group owner to change the status or any other property for the Group additionally to the Global Admin role?
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        TonyRedmond
        MVP
        Nov 15, 2016

        A group owner can change group properties.

         

        A global tenant administrator can change the properties of any group.

         

        The change should happen immediately. Whether the UI of a client picks the change up and displays that change is entirely a different matter - clients do cache properties and it all depends on how often they check with AAD to ensure what the values of the properties actually are...

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