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Alice_Hume
Copper Contributor
Aug 03, 2020
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Owners of a Teams Site are Owners of related SPO Site, how do I prevent this ?

    Hi and apologies if this has been asked before ( I have searched !).   Our MS Teams site(s) started with the Business Unit Lead (important person) as the Owner and that was fine they have ful...
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  • Andrew Hodges's avatar
    Andrew Hodges
    Aug 03, 2020

    Hi Alice_Hume ,

     

    Go to the SharePoint site owners group in the SharePoint site and make a note of the name of the Security group that is in there <Group Name> Owners .

     

    Add that same group into the SharePoint Members group.

     

    Remove that group from the Owners.

     

    Add your own group or person in. 

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Alice_Hume
Copper Contributor
Aug 03, 2020

Thanks Andrew, I'll test that out.

 

Just stumbled on this too.... :

 

https://[Tenant].sharepoint.com/sites/[my site]/_layouts/15/permsetup.aspx

 

wonder if that would do it.

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Andrew Hodges
Bronze Contributor
Aug 03, 2020

Hi Alice_Hume ,

 

That screen would swap out the owners group but it wouldn't do the other steps I mentioned.