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Juan M Baena
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Jun 07, 2019

SharePoint Security Group Owner

Good Day   We are going through clean up efforts against our SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2016 on premise environments. We have found users who left the firm (their AD accounts disabled) to be li...
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Unnie
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Jun 07, 2019

Juan M Baena AFAIK, using Powershell you can only change a Group owner but I am not sure if Powershell has any option to remove a Group owner without providing a replacement owner. Below is what happens if you do it through UI.

 

If a user is owner of 2 groups (Let's say Group A & B). Now if you remove that user from the Site collection user info list (https://extranet.opcw.org/_layouts/15/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=0), then SharePoint will add you as the owner of the Group A & B. You need to be Site collection admin to try this out.

 

Try to configure Site collection Owner group as the group owner for all the groups instead of keeping a persons name?

 

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    Juan M Baena
    Iron Contributor
    Jun 07, 2019

    Unnie thank you we need to do some testing on this scenario just thought to ask beforehand to get a better idea of what to expect.

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