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Adding Admin permissions to every SPO and Teams sites that gets created?
I heard that there was a way that for every SP Online and Teams site that got created that you could grant permissions to the Admins automatically, that way they didn't have to click on the request access link every time they tried to help out someone on a Team's site.
I looked through every setting option I could find in the admin portal and I can't find this setting anywhere. Does it really exist? And if so, can someone point it out to me?
Thanks.
Ted
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To do that you may want to implement a company specific provisioning process so that you have total control and workflow, here is one nice approach http://www.sharepointnutsandbolts.com/2018/04/control-office-365-group-creation.html by Chris O'Brien
Dean,
That looks interesting. Thanks for the link.
Do you know if it would work the same for Teams creation? I know that each new team creates a new group, but I wasn't sure if that flow would work the same for creating a new team and linking it to the new group.
Thanks.
Ted
When you create a new Team, you have the choice of connecting to an existing Group or getting a new Group. If you have limited who can create new Groups, that effectively limits who can create new Teams also.
This is possible with ShareGate if you turn on the Auto-assign site collection administrator feature.
- AFAIK, this option does not exist...the user that creates a Site Collection is the one that has to grant admin access to other users....you can do this by using the SPO Admin Center or PowerShell
I can't believe that MS designed Teams so poorly. Did no one at MS ever think about how corporate IT was going to get asked to support users who have problems with Teams sites?
I'm getting sick of getting tickets for Teams related issues where they send me the URL, and of course when i click on it I get told I don't have access to the site, but I can request it and hope that the person who has to give permissions isn't on vacation, or just out of the office.
The SIMPLEST problems on regular sharepoint sites become a massive PITA on Teams sites.
