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The dark side of SP O365 Group Sites.
Group-based SharePoint != regular SharePoint, they are dramatically different animals that masquerade as the same animal
In general, I agree with your statement (though less gloom and doom), you HAVE to understand Groups and what they are before you just start throwing them out there. That is why we have turned off self-service group creation and have a carefully tailored process for what Groups we roll out and how they are managed.
Hi Brent,
Don't be so sure that you are ableto restore group sites even with MS Support... :-] Another problem is that I cannot create modern sites by PowerShell. As on attached screen shot - "GROUP#0 is not available for sites on this tenant". Is there anyone who experienced such error ?
Sławomir Skowroński, i'd use the "https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=616183" endpoint instead of the sharepoint-based endpoint
Heiko Watz, ive got a few other threads in the O365 Groups area that go into detail on what we are doing:
Hi Brent,
Thanks for all this links, but can you provide just link of powershell code which will create few SPO Group Sites with assigned access for SharePoint security group. Many Thanks
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt219359(v=exchg.160).aspx
New-UnifiedGroup -DisplayName "Engineering Department" -Alias engineering
This working fine but do not does whole job which we have around this topic.
Regards
Slawomir
When working with a Group it would be best to work with the overall permissions of the Group instead of SharePoint specific permissions unless you need to. Once you create a Group using New-UnifiedGroup you could use the Add-UnifiedGroupLinks to add members to your Group which would therefore grant them access to the SharePoint site that is part of the Group.
