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SergeiBaklan
Feb 04, 2019MVP
Everyone except external users disappears form Group Visitors
Hi,
For the group site when we add "Everyone except external users" to the "Site visitors" to grant people R/O access, it disappears in a while from the Site visitors and people lost access. Addin...
MVHBakker
Mar 26, 2019Copper Contributor
Pieter Op De BeéckWe have the same problem (in a Dutch company, so also W-Europe tenant). I thought it must have been a single event changing the group permissions of dozens of our SharePoint sites from read to contribute for the "Everyone except external users" group. But in the audit logs I cannot find anything that happened there, and indeed it can be the case that it happens automatically after some time.
Earlier I found out the Privacy setting of the Group in Teams (in the Edit Team menu) configured after the group permission in the SharePoint site was set effects the private/public setting of the SharePoint site so it can be the cause of our problems. In that case there is no possibility to have SharePoint site where everyone can read, the project team can contribute, and where only the project team can chat in Teams without others reading/editing in Teams as well. Then you have to make private groups, because in the end O365 syncs the different privacy settings on different spots.
MVHBakker
Mar 27, 2019Copper Contributor
MVHBakkerMS states it is by design in this post (march 2019): https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4492201/everyone-except-external-users-group-is-removed
- Martin-CoupalMar 30, 2019Steel ContributorJust a precision, this post is for Private group, not Public group.