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Request to Join Private Group
When a user goes to SPO group enabled site that has a Private group, they request access and when the Group Owner grants access (by clicking on the link in the email they opened in OWA) they are gett...
To me this functionality sounds to be correct since you are adding the user to the SPO Site and not the Group...Are you adding a corporate user or an external one?
This occurs when an internal corporate user is trying to access a site for which they have a URL. We don't want to add them to SP Members group, we want the recipient of the request (the Group owner) to be add the person to the Office Group. We previously migrated the sites from SP 2010 and made them into Group enabled team sites without any members (we did this because permissions were a mess and wanted to start clean). Now that people are being told about the sites, they go to them, get access denied, request access and end up in the SP members group (:.
- SharePoint permissions are complicated. I don’t know if removing everything to start over was the right way to solve this problem. JCM has much more experience than I do dealing with the juju in SP permissions...
- BTW, what happens if you add the user to the group with PowerShell, OWA, or the Admin Center? I wonder if some synchronization from AAD to SPODS might be at the root of the issue.
