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SharePoint Online site loses permissions
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"
Thanks KevinCrossman
But just out of curiosity, how does this differ from going into the Visitor Group and adding by New -> add users?
This is how I normally do it and it seems like the same thing but different way. Right?
Phillip Poole As a practical matter it does not differ in the outcome. The only difference is that one works and the other doesn't (when its a Private Group site, not a traditional team site or comms site)