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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, 2019
That'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