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mescwbif
Brass Contributor
Nov 26, 2020

content type hub url - SPO admin but "waiting for access permission"

Hi there I became a SPO admin in my organization three days ago, and whenever try to access our https://tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/contentTypeHub URL I get a "you need permission to access this site...
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DuncanH910
Copper Contributor
Feb 04, 2021

I work across multiple organisations and tenancies. I've had this crop-up in a few tenancies recently. It looks like there's been a change in the way Microsoft interprets the assigned admin roles.

 

In orgs where it doesn't work the access has been assigned 'SharePoint admin' role, but is not in the CTHub site-collection admins

 

When I check tenancies where it is still working, I can see that the site-collections admins has both:

  1. Company Administration (special role)
  2. SharePoint Service Administrator (special role)

and checking my access rights on the ContentTypeHub I can still access shows I'm listed as site-collection admin.

 

I'm still investigating, but its looking suspiciously like its a symptom of the fiddling Microsoft has recently done with the admin roles 😞

 

The 'hanging-screen with no details in the Content Type Gallery UI:

is a symptom of your access-rights being denied - this is because this UI is just skin over the old ContentType Hub site page.

 

If you are still experiencing the issue raise a ticket with Microsoft Support on your tenant - links via admin portal.