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Possible to set default Members group for a site with PowerShell?
Hello,
does anyone know if it's possible to set a default Members group via PowerShell?
The reason I'm asking is because we've identified a couple of sites lacking the default Members group. It looks like this:
I know that there's the option to set any group as the default Members group by going into the group choosing:
But, is there a way to to this with PowerShell?
So far I have only found the equivalent method to _layouts/15/permsetup.aspx which is CreateDefaultAssociatedGroups() (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.sharepoint.spweb.createdefaultassociatedgroups?view=sharepoint-server).
However, this only creates the three default associated groups if not already present.
In many of our cases, the default groups do exist in the site already:
They're simply not associated, i.e. none of these three groups is associated with the default members group.
I hope I was able to explain my issue clearly and I'm looking forward to your comments.
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Hi Deleted
Try Set-PnPGroup -Identity 'My Site Members' -SetAssociatedGroup Members
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-pnp/set-pnpgroup?view=sharepoint-ps
Deleted
This is a very good question. I don't have the developmental skills myself to whistle something up today but I do believe that it's possible. The PermSetup.aspx page when it's utilised sets three site parameters of (AssociatedOwnerGroup, AssociatedMemberGroup and AssociatedVisitorGroup).
Looking at the members of the Get-SPOSite command I don't see these as being available to manipulate, which I suspect rules out the SharePoint Online PowerShell Module.
I have seen an article on SharePoint Stackexchange that suggests this is possible via the SharePoint CSOM, which can be read here. Hope that's of some use.
Steven Andrews, thanks for the pointers, that should help. I was also given this link which could be helpful: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32760558/csom-set-make-default-group
Will test out when I have the time, thanks.
