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Sorry, you don't have access v. Access Denied
Hi Guy_Boswell
To allow Access Requests to your site go to "Gear"->"Site Information"->"View all Site Settings"-> "Site Permissions" (or directly to https://mytenant.sharepoint.com/sites/mysite/_layouts/15/user.aspx)
Click on "Access Request Settings" and then check "Allow access requests"
This might be deactivated on team sites because this feature adds the users to the SharePoint member's group, not to the connected O365 group, so the users end up with access to SharePoint but not to teams.
I think that this "Allow access requests" to SharePoint Sites feature might be gone soon as it does not make much sense if you try to push your users to use O365 groups for permission handling as Microsoft does. (The feature is already hidden on some of my sites and i can only access it by directly entering the url)
Best Regards,
Sven
Thankyou for your help. If you look at my screen shots, you will see I already have, "Allow access requests", switched on for both sites.
The problem is, at the moment, one site effectively says, "No, you don't have access to this at the moment - but you can ask for it here", whereas the other site says, "No, you don't have access - GO AWAY!" Which isn't nearly so friendly
I do hope they fix rather than remove this option. It is very useful to be able to tell a user, "No, you don't have access to this at the moment - but you can ask for it here".
Guy