Adding users to communication sites

[Linus Jacobson]

Hello,

I am an global admin and I would like to be able to add new owners to communication sites. There is no problem adding new owners for teamsites since they create O365 groups which I can see in the admin view.

I could take over the account but it takes a lot of time ect.

This is a bit of a challenge since users quit and leave locked sites behind them! 

Any ideas? 

[#2]

What about PowerShell? By the way, this is something that is supposed to be addressed by the new SPO Admin Center

[#3]

I am not sure how I would powershell this, I've never used powershell. 

Wow really? Must've missed that :) 

[#4 · Accepted solution]

After connecting to SharePoint Online Management Shell run the following to identity the Communication Sites

Connect-SPOService

Get-SPOSite | Where-Object {$_.template -eq "SITEPAGEPUBLISHING#0"}

This should give you a list of all Communication Sites - select the site url and user you wish to add and input them below

$Site = Get-SPOSite "<site url>"

$user = "<user email>"

$group = $site.title + " Owners"

Add-SPOUser -Group $group -site $site.url -loginname $user