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I can add myself to any Site Owners group via the web but getting Access Denied using PowerShell
Add-SPOUser -Site "https://mysite" -Group "mySite Owners" -LoginName myemail Add-SPOUser : Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation. I can successfully add other users to ...
To retrieve permissions for sharepoint site, you need to have full control permissions on this site. Ask your site collection administrators to give your full control permissions.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/508686/error-attempted-to-perform-an-unauthorized-operati
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/508686/error-attempted-to-perform-an-unauthorized-operati
- ty, yet, it will let me add myself to the Owners or Admins group of the site from the Web Portal? If I can add myself why do I need to ask the Site Collection admin? (just learning) ty
- Any update?
Also curious about this, but it's been over a year since this was posted.
- " I granted the application API permissions for SharePoint Online in Azure AD. I had to grant it full control to all sites." I think you need somebody to give the App Registration more permissions here https://portal.azure.com/#view/Microsoft_AAD_IAM/StartboardApplicationsMenuBlade/~/AppAppsPreview/menuId~/null (PnP Management Shell, AllSites.FullControl permissions)
But I'm not a SharePoint expert 🙂
