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Sharepoint site permissions issues - Visitors group users not granted access
Hey there, One of our colleague was wrongly given the "owner" role for a SP site. That person went to the advanced permissions settings panel and randomly deleted the site default "Visitors" grou...
gaetan2766 It sounds like your Visitors group wasn't actually deleted (maybe), but just had access removed at the top level of the site.
If you go into your site groups (link below) you will see all groups that exist on your site. I'm expecting your original Visitors group to still be there.
Note that you just need to change TENANT and SITE_NAME to reflect your tenant/site.
https://TENANT.sharepoint.com/sites/SITE_NAME/_layouts/15/groups.aspx
Effectively, you just need to go into Advanced Permissions (link below), click on Grant Permissions, the find your Visitors group and add it with Read permissions.
https://TENANT.sharepoint.com/sites/SITE_NAME/_layouts/15/user.aspx