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Everyone except external users disappears form Group Visitors
When site is Private, and you want to give access to the site to "Everyone except external users" read only, we cannot. I too had a same issue and had opened a ticket with Microsoft. They said that it is by design and you cannot use "Everyone except external users" in the Visitors group. A background process is run by Microsoft, that removes this from the Visitors group. You may search your Audit logs in the Security and Compliance center and will get hold of this information. I was able to find this in the Audit logs and hence was sure that it was not done by anyone in my team but Microsoft did it.
For time being the solution, I see is to create your own Security group (or may be a Dynamic group) and add users into that security group. Later, use the security group to add it into your SharePoint Visitors group.
Hi ainnani ,
Yes, it was discussed in the comments to this blog https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/Modernize-your-SharePoint-team-sites-by-connecting-them-to-new/bc-p/356981#M3416 and support article was published https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4492201/everyone-except-external-users-group-is-removed
We add 'everyopne' as domain group in Sharepoint, not as part of any Groups group.
