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Add O365 Group Owner to Site Collection Administration List
ChrisFicekin the new SPO admin center, select the site, then look at the info panel, if the group is disconnected from the owner role, a message box will show up with a link to reconnect it.
Martin-Coupalvery true, and many are unannounced. I noticed that a while ago when I was trying to fix a problem caused by someone on my customers team that did not understand what they were doing with a script (:
Dean_GrossThank you!
Here is the feature Dean was referring to in reconnecting O365 group owners as site collection admins.
@Martin Coupal I tried the method you mentioned and I was still experiencing issues where members still had site collection administration access. The steps Dean mention and clicking on the message "add the group owners as admins" takes care of the issue. I appreciate you offering your help as well! Anything helps.
- Normally it is because the group.members were in site collection admin. This is misleading as the name they use for the members and the owner display the same in SharePoint. One way to be sure is to use the method I showed to display the account information (as both name are the same). But easy fix provided by Dean!
ChrisFicek I'm having the same issue as you but using Dean_Gross fix by adding the group owners as admin from the admin centre is again making the "Members" group show up under Site collection administrators, instead of "Owners" group.
Is that what you experienced as well?
This is weird that we can't add the "Owners" group again by simply searching for it!
Thanks
Charlotte
CharlotteDessertenne That is strange. I have not experienced that issue as it should put the "Owners" group back in. It could be a fluke. Glad you caught that because we simply don't want to add "Members" group as a site collection admin. Can you try removing them and re-add it using Dean's fix? Do you get the same results as you did earlier?
