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Copper Contributor

Mar 26, 2019

Pnp provisoning issue with permissions for Everyone except external users

Basically, I've setup a Pnp powershell script that is triggered by a site design (site design/script -> flow -> azure queue -> azure function ...) to provision a newly created public Team site in my ...

Copper Contributor

Apr 29, 2019

Martin-Coupal thanks for the reply !

I finally get to a similar solution but on a private team site:

Create a new group with the desired permissions (Read" permission in my case)
Add "Everyone Except External Users" on this group

For info:

Adding "Everyone Except External Users" in the "Visitors" group on a private site has a similar behavior as on public site. After some time "Everyone Except External Users" is removed from the "Visitors" group ...

Martin-Coupal

Iron Contributor

Apr 29, 2019

Auren10 , For private group site, this is a "By Design" behavior. Personnaly I think this is causing confusion as site owner are allowed to add EEEU and set the permission but a background process "play" with permission. IMO, this is not good.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4492201/everyone-except-external-users-group-is-removed

But for public group site I never saw this was a "By design" behavior (And It would not make sense if it was). I'm still in discussion with Microsoft on this. I'm waiting for an answer. Apparently it's not happening on all tenants but surely other people are having the issue (on my side I have the problems with my customers tenants in Canada and my tenant in the US).