While investigating a search problem (in Group enabled Team Sites) with MS Support, I discovered that if an account in an Office Group is assigned to the Owner Role, but not to the Member Role it will not get any search results. The user can create and edit documents, and navigate to them , but search does not find the files. I am being told that this is 'by-design' and the MS Support engineer is trying to find some documentation. This is occurring in Private group enabled sites, but not in Public group enabled sites. This makes absolutely no sense to me and I consider this to be a major bug. If I can see the file and change the file, I should be able to search for the file. I should not have to assign a user to the Member role if they are in the Owner Role in the group. Has anyone else experienced this behavior?

Well considering when your an owner you get added as a site collection admin to a site it should be irrelevant. Are you adding to the SharePoint owner group then accessing the site? I know it takes awhile for the owner to get added on as a site collection admin but that does seem kind of odd?

As a follow up, I have found a bug that prevents search results from being returned as expected in Group enabled Team site searches If the Office Group is Public and the user is only in the Group Owner role, then searching works as expected.If the Office Group is Private, then searching does Not work as expected. A user that is only in the Group Owner role does not get any search results - adding the user to the Group Member role causes the search results to be returned, but this should not be necessary.This bug does not affect users that are in Group Member role. I am working with MS Support to get this fixed.Geir-Magnus Pettersen@ can you offer any information about this?

I will try to reproduce this issue to see what migth be the problem.

I just tried creating a new private teamsite from sharepoint home/portal. Added an extra user as owner in the creation process. But searching with the extra user added as additional owner worked in the private modern team site. Am I doing this wrong, could you provide some additional steps on how you added the extra user only as owner of the group?

This problem occurs when I add a user to the Owners role of the Office group in either, the O365 Admin Center Group page or in Azure AD Group management page. By using these tools, the account does not get assigned automatically to the Member Role also.

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MattBurr
Iron Contributor
Nov 11, 2024
MS Documentation: Search results don't appear for group owners after creating a new Microsoft 365 group - SharePoint | Microsoft Learn

Just spent a couple of days trying to figure out why we couldn't see search results (someone else had set the group up). Looks like it is a feature not a bug.
DurairajAvasi
Copper Contributor
Apr 05, 2022
Dean_Gross any update on this issue. I have this same issue - MSFT is sending me in rounds 🙂 any workaround that we can do to fix this?
- Dean_Gross
  Silver Contributor
  Apr 05, 2022
  Sorry, no idea
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Jun 20, 2018
Well considering when your an owner you get added as a site collection admin to a site it should be irrelevant. Are you adding to the SharePoint owner group then accessing the site? I know it takes awhile for the owner to get added on as a site collection admin but that does seem kind of odd?
- Dean_Gross
  Silver Contributor
  Jun 21, 2018
  As a follow up, I have found a bug that prevents search results from being returned as expected in Group enabled Team site searches
  If the Office Group is Public and the user is only in the Group Owner role, then searching works as expected.
  If the Office Group is Private, then searching does Not work as expected. A user that is only in the Group Owner role does not get any search results - adding the user to the Group Member role causes the search results to be returned, but this should not be necessary.
  This bug does not affect users that are in Group Member role.
  I am working with MS Support to get this fixed.
  Geir-Magnus Pettersen@ can you offer any information about this?
  - Turbodanar
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 05, 2023
    Thanks for posting this. I ran across the same issue today. Was scratching my head why an owner could not search but a member with read only rights could search and get results.
    
    Big thumbs up.!!

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