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Vince Marino
Oct 31, 2017Brass Contributor
Global Admin has no access to New Communications Site
Hello, I just ran into something I've never seen before with the new Communications SharePoint sites. Background I'm the Office 365 Admin and have Global Admin permissions, as well as Site Collec...
Oct 31, 2017
The way communication sites work in regards of permissions and visibility is the following one:
(1) When a user creates a communication site, it's added as a site collection admin...so if you are not the creator of the Communication site and the site has not been shared with you, it's absolutely correct you don't have access to the site
(2) As happens with modern team sites, Communication sites are not listed in the SPO Admin Center (they will be listed in the new SPO Admin Center to come)
(1) When a user creates a communication site, it's added as a site collection admin...so if you are not the creator of the Communication site and the site has not been shared with you, it's absolutely correct you don't have access to the site
(2) As happens with modern team sites, Communication sites are not listed in the SPO Admin Center (they will be listed in the new SPO Admin Center to come)
Vince Marino
Oct 31, 2017Brass Contributor
jcgonzalezmartinthanks for the reply. It looks like I'm going to have to look at locking down Team and Communications Site creation until I have created some training guides and governance.
Thanks,
Vince