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Nicholas Byng-Maddick
Copper Contributor
May 04, 2018

SharePoint Access Requests Settings

This has long been a problem but there appears to have been a subtle but significant change to the abilities here in SPO.  It appears you can now specify the site owners group as the destination of t...
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Dean_Gross
Silver Contributor
May 04, 2018

That appears to be wonderful news, but is it going to the SP Owners group members OR to the people connected Office Group Owner role?

Any idea if there is any powershell/csom cmd to implement?

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jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
May 04, 2018
I believe I have seen this in a message posted in the message center, but I cannot find it now
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      LisaJo48
      Iron Contributor
      Oct 07, 2019
      This sounds like just what I have been asking about. One question, though, that is still a bit of a gray area for me.

      In this new feature, where you can choose who receives the access requests, one option is the Owners which sounds promising. My question is, when the site is associated with an O365 Group/TEAMS, does that option actually refer to those who are and only those who are members of the site's owner's group and, therefore, does not also include those who have the role of Site Collection Admin? I ask this because, in the Advanced perms page, the only option, other than specific email address, was "...Admins". This doesn't work for us because there are other users included as Site Collection Admins for the site who are not the site's owners and should not be receiving access requests. We need site owners and only site owners to receive the access requests and I'm hoping that this new features is meeting that need. Can you confirm one way or the other?
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    Dean_Gross
    Silver Contributor
    May 04, 2018

    that is not a surprise, the inability to find old announcements in the Message Center continues to be a disappointment

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      Deleted
      May 04, 2018
      Your right, the message center message went poof :P. I concur that it existed last week lol.
      • StephenRice's avatar
        StephenRice
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        May 07, 2018

        Hi all,

         

        I helped make this improvement happen so if you have any questions, hit me :) Message center post may have expired unfortunately but the documentation has been updated.

         

        There were two pieces to the change:

        1) Make it clear who is receiving access requests (especially since it used to default to "someone@example.com" which I'm pretty sure doesn't help ;). It's now clear if you're selecting the default (owners) or another e-mail address of your choice.

        2) Show a custom message on the access request page.

         

        Thanks!

         

        Stephen Rice

        OneDrive Program Manager II

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