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Can default permission groups be restored in SharePoint Online? (Owners, Members, Visitors)
Hi everyone,
In a SharePoint Online site, someone with permissions modified the default site groups (Owners, Members, and Visitors), replacing the users and groups that were originally there.
This also affected several subsites and lists that inherited permissions from the main site, and even some lists with broken inheritance were unexpectedly modified. I’m not sure if that’s directly related.
I have Site Collection Administrator permissions, but I’m not a SharePoint global admin, so there may be things I can’t see or do.
Should I escalate this to a global admin? Is there any way to check or recover how those groups were configured a few days ago?
Any advice or shared experience would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
You can either click Restore default permission groupsin the advanced settings of the website permissions or use PowerShell to run Set-SPOSite -ResetAllRoleInheritance to reset permissions. Note that this action is irreversible, so its recommended to back up your permission configurations first.
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- TangfootIron Contributor
You can either click Restore default permission groupsin the advanced settings of the website permissions or use PowerShell to run Set-SPOSite -ResetAllRoleInheritance to reset permissions. Note that this action is irreversible, so its recommended to back up your permission configurations first.