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Granting user Owner role for a Teams from sharepoint site will not get reflected inside Team app
Inside Office 365 admin center i created a new Microsoft Teams >> where new office 365 group got created + new SharePoint site got created. Then I login to the sharepoint site using office 365 admin >> click on "site permissions" >> "Invite People" >> "add members to group" >> i invite an internal username>> then the internal username saw the new MS Teams inside his MS Teams desktop app , as follow:-
but since the user is not defined as an owner on the office 365 group (MS Teams), the user was not able to invite other users from the MS Teams desktop app. so using the office 365 admin i went back to sharepoint site >> i modify the user's role from "Member" to "Owner" as follow:-
but this did not allow the user to add members from the Team desktop app, i asked the user to logout and re-login but did not fix the issue. although when i access the Teams from Office 365 admin center>> i can see that the user is an owner, as follow:-
now to fix this i have to reassign the user the Owner role from the Teams inside the office 365 admin center. so my question is why this did not work when i do it from the sharepoint site (although my action was reflected on the Teams members as shown above)?
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john john I believe this is a bug. I have had a user appear as an Owner of a Team in the Teams app. However, this Owner was unable to add new members. In Teams, I changed him back to just a Member, then back to an Owner and he was then able to manage team members as expected. The changes from this were pretty much immediate, he did not have to logout/login.
I believe this user had originally been added to the Team/Office 365 Group through SharePoint, like you are doing, and this is why his Owner role was not working as expected. To me, this seems like a bug in the connection between SharePoint/Teams/Office 365 Group.
I also would suggest checking the associated Office 365 Group in the Office 365 Admin Center (not the Teams Admin Center) and make sure that any Owners that you want to have full access in Teams are in both the Owners and Members of the Office 365 Group. If they are only in Owners (say an admin account you want to have site collection admin access to SharePoint, but not see all group features), they will not have quite the same access to group features as an account that is in both Owners and Members.
- Yeah! As you suggested try doing it from directly from teams, as this will hit directly! From then on do this!
Yeah, if not a member in the admin portal view - they won’t be members of the team at allSome users still go to the connected SharePoint site for various features that are not yet in Teams, so telling people to just do something in Teams is not the best solution in the long run.
Since essentially an Office 365 Group = SharePoint Team Site = Microsoft Team, then adding a Member or Owner via the Outlook Group, SharePoint Site, or Teams App should all have the same end result. Users should not have to go to Teams for it to work right. This is a bug in the connection between SharePoint, Teams, and the Office 365 Group and it should be fixed by Microsoft.
- I have similar request to create permission to allow member to read/view and add items (documents) but not allow to edit or delete. Can this be set?
- You Will need to go into SharePoint and alter the permissions there! I would suggest creating an additions library and use explicit permissions on this library instead
- Because these are not the same! The owner role in Teams is not the same as the owners group in SP!
Also just use Teams to add/change membership and types! Its the fastest way! No need to do anything like this from SharePoint when it’s about the Office 365 group
adam deltinger wrote:
Because these are not the same! The owner role in Teams is not the same as the owners group in SP!
Also just use Teams to add/change membership and types! Its the fastest way! No need to do anything like this from SharePoint when it’s about the Office 365 groupadam deltinger NO they are the same !!!! inside sharepoint site you have the option to add users to either the sharepoint site or to add them to the Office 365 !! as mentioned in this list:-
the highlighted option will add the users to the Office 365 group (try this at your end!!), also as i mentioned the change will get reflected inside Teams inside office 365 admin center.. but not inside the Teams desktop app...
- I think he meant he added the user as Owner in the Office 365 Group, so he is correct with his asumptiom...I can only think you are having some delays when propagating the update in the Office 365 Group to the Team
jcgonzalezmartin wrote:
I think he meant he added the user as Owner in the Office 365 Group, so he is correct with his asumptiom...I can only think you are having some delays when propagating the update in the Office 365 Group to the Teamjcgonzalezmartini meant i granted the user Owner permission on the Office 365 group through sharepoint site using this option:-
this options is available to us, but seems most users do not know about it. and adding users in this way will add the user to the office 365 group + MS Teams + Teams desktop app, but when i changed the role from member to owner, this change did not get reflected inside Teams app, while got reflected inside Office 365 group & MS Teams inside admin center...
