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Difference between adding a owner trough O365 groups or SharePoint online
Hi All,
I have a question regarding the difference between adding a user as owner trough O365 groups (admin portal) or adding it via the SharePoint online website.
Example:
I have a SPO Teamsite: Team1
When I go to portal.office.com and add User1 as Owner to the O365 Group matching the SPO site 'Team1'. I get access to the SPO site. But don't get the 'welcome mail'. Also the site is not visible in the HubSite I created, neither can I search contents trough SPO search.
When I add User1 via the SPO TeamSite by pressing Members and 'Add Members', i do get the welcome email, and it is visible in the HubSite and searchable.
Does anyone know if this is expected behavior?
Thanks.
As a follow-up, the user needs to be a owner and a member to be able to receive the 'Welcome to the new group mail' and to be able to see the sites in a hub-site for example.
Hope this helps someone in the future!
Niels
- My two cents here:
1) If you add the user as an Owner in the Group, access to the SPO Site linked to the Group is granted by the Group Membership so the user will automatically become a Site Owner but also a Site Collection Admin
2) If you add the user in the Owners Group in the SPO site, SPO is granting access to the site as owner to the user but the user will not have access to conversations or other Group StuffThanks for your reply, in this example I am not adding the user to the owner group in SPO. But I go to:
https://portal.office.com -> Groups -> Groups and add the user as owner in this group.
Maybe it's because when adding it as member in SPO that it becomes a member and a owner?As a follow-up, the user needs to be a owner and a member to be able to receive the 'Welcome to the new group mail' and to be able to see the sites in a hub-site for example.
Hope this helps someone in the future!
Niels
