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Copper Contributor

Apr 20, 2017

The dark side of SP O365 Group Sites.

When I’m dealing with Modern Sites and Group sites I'm feeling like beta tester on development environment. Before you start using Office365 (SharePoint) group sites makes sure that you know what ar...

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Sławomir Skowroński

Copper Contributor

Apr 25, 2017

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 ?

Brent Ellis

Silver Contributor

Apr 25, 2017

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:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Groups/Experiences-quot-migrating-quot-to-an-O365-Group/m-p/39884/highlight/true#M1737

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Groups/Our-Groups-Rollout-part-2/m-p/51922/highlight/true#M2480

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Groups/quot-My-Groups-quot-list-for-SharePoint-Homepage-Web-Part/m-p/44824/highlight/true#M2015

Sławomir Skowroński
Copper Contributor
Apr 25, 2017
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
- Drew Madelung
  MVP
  Jun 02, 2017
  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.