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SharePoint Online site loses permissions
I have a site in my SharePoint Online tenant that is for HR to update all employees on new hires and forms, etc.
I added "everyone except external users" to the visitors group.
It worked fine but recently, it keeps being removed from the group and I have to go back in and manually re-add it.
How can I check to see how this is being removed?
Phillip Poole Is this an Team Site connected to Office 365 Groups? If so, that's a bug or a feature depending on how you look at it. (there are other threads in the MTC about this).
If you add Everyone as a direct permission (not inside Visitors) it should stick.
Yes, this is a Team site and had an Office 365 group created by the link in the lower left corner many months after the site was built.
I am confused by your last sentence. How do I add everyone with direct permission. Do you mean on the home page and invite them?
We want to have everyone have access but only view.
Is this getting confusing?
Phillip Poole Gear menu -> Site Permissions.
Then click Advanced Permissions Settings. (e.g. https://<tenant>.sharepoint.com/sites/<groupname>/_layouts/15/user.aspx)
Then "Grant Permissions" to Everyone except external with the permission "read"
