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Linus Jacobson
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Feb 02, 2018
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Adding users to communication sites

Hello,   I am an global admin and I would like to be able to add new owners to communication sites. There is no problem adding new owners for teamsites since they create O365 groups which I can s...
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  • Johanson Sandrasagra's avatar
    Johanson Sandrasagra
    Feb 02, 2018

    After connecting to SharePoint Online Management Shell run the following to identity the Communication Sites

     

    Connect-SPOService

    Get-SPOSite | Where-Object {$_.template -eq "SITEPAGEPUBLISHING#0"}

     

    This should give you a list of all Communication Sites - select the site url and user you wish to add and input them below

     

    $Site = Get-SPOSite "<site url>"

    $user = "<user email>"

    $group = $site.title + " Owners"

    Add-SPOUser -Group $group -site $site.url -loginname $user

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jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Feb 02, 2018
What about PowerShell? By the way, this is something that is supposed to be addressed by the new SPO Admin Center
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Linus Jacobson
Copper Contributor
Feb 02, 2018

I am not sure how I would powershell this, I've never used powershell. 

 

Wow really? Must've missed that :) 

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    Johanson Sandrasagra
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    Feb 02, 2018

    After connecting to SharePoint Online Management Shell run the following to identity the Communication Sites

     

    Connect-SPOService

    Get-SPOSite | Where-Object {$_.template -eq "SITEPAGEPUBLISHING#0"}

     

    This should give you a list of all Communication Sites - select the site url and user you wish to add and input them below

     

    $Site = Get-SPOSite "<site url>"

    $user = "<user email>"

    $group = $site.title + " Owners"

    Add-SPOUser -Group $group -site $site.url -loginname $user

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