Forum Discussion
Request to Join Private Group
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 (:.
- 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.
If I use the Admin center, then I have total control and the user ends up in the Office Group as desired. But I don't want to be involved, I'm expecting the management of Office Group membership to be handled by the people that are Group Owners.
Juan is probably on to something about this scenario being a Site Access Request instead of a Group Access Request, so that begs the question of how does a user request access to an Office Group?
Maybe I'm being naive or dense, but shouldn't this just work?
- It should just work, but I bet you have found an edge condition from those old sites and their messed up membership that gets in the way. Time for a support request.
