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Permissions on a communication site has been modified automatically by the SharePoint system
This happened on our tenant last night. I just opened a ticket with Microsoft. The group 'Everyone except external users' that we had added to 'Site Visitors' group got added to 'Site Members' group. This is very serious as the Portal was now editable by everyone company wide and one of the users tried editing the home page. It is our global landing page.
Anjali_Sharma As a workaround, consider adding Everyone Except External Users as a direct permission, not inside a SharePoint Group.
Interesting. I will try that. Do you believe that when it is outside, the groups do not get moved around by system account? Microsoft is still investigating this and i have a few other permissions that were modified by the System account which I would like to determine why if so. I will however implement this workaround.
Anjali_Sharma Directly applied permissions have been stable in my experience, yes.