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OAGM-JU
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Jun 20, 2019
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Group owner as global admin

Aloha!  I am a global admin in our organization, and I'd like to be a group owner of all groups existing in our organization by default. Today, I tried deleting a plan in Planner but couldn't do...
  • kombaiah Murugan's avatar
    Jun 20, 2019

    OAGM-JU 

     

    This is expected behavior. To delete a plan (or group), you should have been already added as owner of the group. You can't delete the plan without being a owner of the group even though you have Global Admin privilege.

     

    Since you have global admin privilege,  you can easily add yourself as owner of the group using the Exchange Online powershell cmdlet https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/users-and-groups/add-unifiedgrouplinks?view=exchange-ps and try again.

     

    $userToAddOwner = "globaladmin@yourdomain.com"
    Add-UnifiedGroupLinks –Identity "O365Group" –LinkType Owners –Links $userToAddOwner