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Talat Zaitoun
Aug 03, 2018Copper Contributor
Sharepoint Online Permissions
I am currently trying to put together a sharepoint online team site, mainly to set up a company calendar. Everything has been going smoothly until I started to think about permissions. The team websi...
- AnonymousAug 03, 2018What you'll want to do is go to the advanced permission page and create a new group, giving it the contribute without delete permissions. Then add in the Office 365 group to that group. Finally removing the Office 365 group from the Members group.
However keep in mind if you do this, if you have a Team connect to the group or use any other file functions outside of the SharePoint site you might run into issues removing files, Using Move commands etc. on those other apps if you mess with this permission group in this way.
To answer you question about owner, the owners are added as site collection admins kind of invisibly to the site somehow. I think it used to show the "Office 365 Group Owners" or something along those lines in there but Don't think it does anymore and I think this is the cause of a search index issue where owners not being listed as members too have indexing issues not being able to search that SharePoint site content cause they technically aren't listed anywhere on the SharePoint security model for the crawlers to crawl for that user. Anyway that's another topic :P.
Talat Zaitoun
Aug 07, 2018Copper Contributor
Hi Sam,
My office 365 group is in the default member permission list. However, when I checkmark this default member permission list to try to edit its permissions (the button is Edit User Permissions on the page that shows all permission groups), its grayed out. It seems as if I can't change the permissions of a default group. Have you ever tried making a new permission group and adding the office 365 group to it, and then setting the right permissions?
My office 365 group is in the default member permission list. However, when I checkmark this default member permission list to try to edit its permissions (the button is Edit User Permissions on the page that shows all permission groups), its grayed out. It seems as if I can't change the permissions of a default group. Have you ever tried making a new permission group and adding the office 365 group to it, and then setting the right permissions?
Sam Giles
Aug 08, 2018Brass Contributor
Hi Talat,
The only way this is available on my tenant is using the Site Collection Admin account that is specified in the SP admin centre.
Even Owners will not have this ability. Are you able to test with the SCA account?