This has long been a problem but there appears to have been a subtle but significant change to the abilities here in SPO. It appears you can now specify the site owners group as the destination of the request emails. Has anyone seen any announcements or tried it out yet ?

If you want to reset that default groups configuration (subsite or rootsite) Owners, Members, Visitors (in case of deletion of site migration for example). You can use that technical page (not available from the settings menu): http://Tenant.sharepoint.com/sites/yourSite/YourSubsite/_layouts/15/permsetup.aspx That will offer you the choice from the existing groups list or create your own. Fab

Hi KevinCrossman, Thanks for flagging this! Group connected sites should be sending the access requests to the O365 Group Admins so this is expected. The other two are anomalies so we'll track down what's happening here. Thanks! Stephen Rice OneDrive Program Manager II

What I really would like to see it that these requests result in the requestors account being added to the Office Group instead of the SharePoint Group. Is this on your roadmap?

Dear Damien, If you use the script to set the access request with an empty string into the email address, the access request will be automatically disable. Fab

Hi StephenRice, We are getting a mismatch between MS Teams SharePoint Members group and the MS Teams members group. This is because often staff have their first interaction with a Team via the Team's SharePoint site. If they don't have access they request access.This sends an email to the MS Teams SharePoint Owners group (the default, and how our sites are setup), the owner then clicks the Accept link in the email.Accept adds the person to the MS Teams SharePoint Members group BUT NOT the MS Teams Members group. I understand that there are times when there is a need to give access to just the SharePoint content , and not the entire Teams experience.I also understand that this issue is arising because this is a legacy feature. What would be great is the following:If the SharePoint site is related to a MS Team, then on the Permissions / Access request screen have a 2 radio buttons "Access request Accept action: Add requester to SharePoint members OR Add requester to Team members"- The other way to do this would be in the Request access email that goes to Site owners. Change the wording to "Accept request: Add to SharePoint members OR Add to Team members" Let me know what you think

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Sławomir Skowroński
Copper Contributor
Oct 19, 2018
Hi

Is there anyone who is able confirm that distribution lists working with Request For Access. I've got an error when I try to put 2 email addresses or distribution list.

Cheers
- Eason Lu
  Copper Contributor
  Nov 27, 2018
  Distribution list will work. It takes any email address. But it does not take two or more email addresses.
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May 04, 2018
It's a much needed change, because previously it would only use the original site owner it seemed. or it was random. However, they need to incorporate this entire piece in with guest access requests for the entire group.

I started a uservoice for that request for Teams, but it encompass groups in general. https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/34054555-microsoft-teams-guest-access-request
Dean_Gross
Silver Contributor
May 04, 2018
That appears to be wonderful news, but is it going to the SP Owners group members OR to the people connected Office Group Owner role?
Any idea if there is any powershell/csom cmd to implement?
- Salvatore Biscari
  Silver Contributor
  May 04, 2018
  If the first option is configured, access requests are sent to all members of the Team Site Owners group.
  If the second option is configured, access requests are sent to a specific user or distribution list.
  In any case, only members of the Team Site Owners group can approve or decline access requests.
  See https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Set-up-and-manage-access-requests-94b26e0b-2822-49d4-929a-8455698654b3
  IMHO, a nice addition but not a game changer...
  - Sławomir Skowroński
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 12, 2018
    Is there anyone who is able confirm that distribution list is work with Request For Access. I've got an error when I try to put 2 email addresses or distribution list.
    Error Sorry, something went wrong
    The e-mail address being passed is either empty, too big or incorrect.
- jcgonzalezmartin
  MVP
  May 04, 2018
  I believe I have seen this in a message posted in the message center, but I cannot find it now
  - ganeshsanap
    MVP
    Sep 30, 2019
    jcgonzalezmartin It is still available in Message Center with ID = MC189888
    
    Message Center Link: Site owners can now manage sharing and access request settings from the Site permissions panel
    
    Office 365 Roadmap reference: Manage sharing and access request settings from the Site permissions panel

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