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Nicholas Byng-Maddick's avatar
Nicholas Byng-Maddick
Brass 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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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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KevinCrossman
MVP
May 07, 2018

Some anomalies:

In a Community Site (/sites/...) it references the Owners Group.

 

In a Office 365 Groups connected Site (/sites/...) (group started in Yammer) it references the "Admins" group

 

In a Classic Team Site site (/teams/...) in some of them I see Members and some I see Owners.

 

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