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Dean_Gross's avatar
Dean_Gross
Silver Contributor
Jun 20, 2018

User In Owner Role - No Search Results

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 wil...
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Geir-Magnus Pettersen's avatar
Geir-Magnus Pettersen
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Jul 01, 2018

I am seeing the same behavior as you describe. The question is if this behavior is by design because of some unknown reason for private groups. Did you have a support case going for this? If not I can dig up with provisioning teams on if there is a good reason for this behavior.

 

Queries to search does not complain about errors as far as I can see, but there are not returned any results for the private group owner.

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Dean_Gross
Silver Contributor
Jul 01, 2018

Yes, i do have a support ticket open. The engineer is insisting that it is by design, but when SP shows a user has full control, they should be getting search results, SP has worked like this for 15 years. The Privacy setting should only affect external system access and should not have any affect on searching when conducted within the site.

  • Frank-Ove Kristiansen's avatar
    Frank-Ove Kristiansen
    Brass Contributor
    Aug 09, 2019
    Hi Pete,
    I haven't seen any User Voice request on this yet. There are a lot of requests. It it exists, it might be in the list in here:
    https://sharepoint.uservoice.com/forums/330321-sharepoint-search
  • Pete Bostrom's avatar
    Pete Bostrom
    Brass Contributor
    Jul 25, 2019

    Frank-Ove Kristiansen Dean_Gross 

    I came across this issue in the past week too, and logged a support ticket only to be told it was by design. I don't see the logic why it would be designed like this, and the support team were unable to offer any additional info regarding this, except to get it into uservoice.

     

    So now it looks like we will have to add any new owners into both the Office 365 Group, as well as the Site Owners group in SharePoint!

     

    Do you know if a User Voice request has already been raised for it?

     

     

  • Frank-Ove Kristiansen's avatar
    Frank-Ove Kristiansen
    Brass Contributor
    Jul 12, 2018

    Hi,

    I can also confirm this behavior. I discovered this issue when creating a hub site. The News Web Part on the Hub site home page was not delivering results from all associated sites as expected. Please see my discussion on this issue: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint/Strange-behavior-in-Hub-site-permissions/m-p/214457.

     

    After re-adding the user to the site, the search result is appearing as expected. 

     

    And I agree with Dean. If the user has been granted Owner role on the site, search results should be delivered accordingly. 

    If the users added to the new Group site through other tools than within SharePoint itself results in this behavior, then for me this sounds like a bug, and not by design.