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Martin-Coupal
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May 26, 2022
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SharePoint Default Groups ID

Are the IDs of the SharePoint Owners, Members and Visitors groups supposed to always be 3 for owners, 4 for visitors and 5 for members? I have a customer where these ID are not the same since the beg...
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    ganeshsanap
    May 31, 2022

    Martin-Coupal Yes, it is a normal behavior in SharePoint. Not all site's default groups have their IDs as 3, 4 and 5.

    I have observed the same in my SharePoint tenant. Group IDs for default site groups are different for different sites. 

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ganeshsanap
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May 31, 2022

Martin-Coupal Yes, it is a normal behavior in SharePoint. Not all site's default groups have their IDs as 3, 4 and 5.

I have observed the same in my SharePoint tenant. Group IDs for default site groups are different for different sites. 

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Martin-Coupal
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May 31, 2022
Ok, thanks, still it is hard to explain why most of the time it is 3,4,5 but sometimes it is different. Probably because of asynchronous provisioning of groups...

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