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Silver Contributor

Nov 18, 2016

Why don't O365 Groups (SharePoint) respect Global Admin / SharePoint Admin settings?

We have a team of Global SharePoint Admins that support SharePoint across the board. If the user is a Global Admin or a SharePoint Admin, why can they not access an O365 SharePoint Site without bei...

Office 365 Groups

Bronze Contributor

Nov 18, 2016

No clue, I've also learned, that I have to be Member to see content, as Owner doesn't seem to be enough of a priviledge.

jcgonzalezmartin

MVP

Nov 18, 2016

The workaround could be to assign those users to Groups sites as Site Collection Administrators using PowerShell

Brent Ellis
Silver Contributor
Nov 18, 2016
Confirmed it worked

Even things like changing regional settings from the UI get access denied as a SCA. Lots of work to rationalize what "really" is this restricted Group SharePoint site versus an actual SharePoint site
- Salvatore Biscari
  Silver Contributor
  Nov 18, 2016
  Please, can you share how did you confirm it worked, exactly?
  I am under the impression that it appears to work but t doesn't actually work...
  - Brent Ellis
    Silver Contributor
    Nov 18, 2016
    I mean it gave the user access to the SharePoint site, but it is a limited admin capability. Like you have mentioned, some things you can do, and others you can't, which doesnt make sense to me. An admin should be an admin.
- jcgonzalezmartin
  MVP
  Nov 18, 2016
  Mmm...weird, I'm not having this problem...there are some other folks seeing this same problem ( Salvatore Biscari) I have just done an experiment consisting on adding as site collection admin a user that it's not event a member of the group and It worked like a charm...I think we are missing here a practical guidance of what can / should be done in regards of security in Groups...it's not enough to hide administrative options for people like us cc cfiessinger