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jean090681
Aug 21, 2019Copper Contributor
Add AD Security group as Site collection administrator - SPO
Is there a way to add a security group as Primary or secondary site collection administrator to all the sites in the tenant via PowerShell? I know this works for adding a user account to all the ...
- Aug 21, 2019That's not correct...you can add an AD Security Group as site collection admins with no problems and it can be also done through PS: https://kirkbarrett.wordpress.com/2016/04/04/adding-an-o365-security-group-to-the-site-collection-administrators-group/
Alireza Rahimifarid
Aug 21, 2019Iron Contributor
Currently, there is no way to have the Office 365 nested group as site collection admin, I know Microsoft working on nested AAD Group but there is no timeline for that.
But as Juan said you can have your current security group as site collection primary admin.
- Aug 21, 2019That's not correct...you can add an AD Security Group as site collection admins with no problems and it can be also done through PS: https://kirkbarrett.wordpress.com/2016/04/04/adding-an-o365-security-group-to-the-site-collection-administrators-group/
- jean090681Aug 22, 2019Copper Contributor
jcgonzalezmartin Thank you so much, this is exactly what i was looking for.
- Alireza RahimifaridAug 21, 2019Iron Contributoryou right, I thought he is asking for the Office 365 nested group to have security group as a group owner.
Thanks Juan