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Group SharePoint Sites with O365 Groups that doesn't exist
Hello, I have noticed that there are quite a few Group sites in our tenant for which group doesn't exist. I am not sure if it's a normal behavior but I do have some questions. - Under what ci...
- Unfortunately there is no way to prevent something that should not happen :-(. In regards of a way to determine the owner, I'm afraid it's not possible because the former Group is the owner...try to add a new owner to each site instead.
In regards of your question about adding a Team, I think there is not a supported way to do this since your sites are orphaned sites not linked to Groups so you cannot potentially create Teams based on those Groups that don't exist anymore....best you can do here in my opinion is to create a copy of the contents of the sites, delete them and recreate your Groups
I think you are right and what propably happened is that the Groups were not deleted properly causing you have some orphaned sites in your tenant. In regards of how to recover the Group / Ownership, I'm afraid that's not possible Today
Thanks, Juan!
Is there a way to avoid something like this happening in the future?
For the current sites, is there a way to determine the owner? In SharePoint Admin center, for any of the group sites, Admin just says Office 365 group owners. Powershell, give owner as blank.
Lastly, if the user wants the site be MS Teams so that they can have conversation. Is there a way to do so?
- Unfortunately there is no way to prevent something that should not happen :-(. In regards of a way to determine the owner, I'm afraid it's not possible because the former Group is the owner...try to add a new owner to each site instead.
In regards of your question about adding a Team, I think there is not a supported way to do this since your sites are orphaned sites not linked to Groups so you cannot potentially create Teams based on those Groups that don't exist anymore....best you can do here in my opinion is to create a copy of the contents of the sites, delete them and recreate your Groups- Thank you, Juan for the insight.