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StefanKi's avatar
StefanKi
Iron Contributor
Oct 09, 2017

Change internal group names

Hi,

today we had problems with the provisioning. To fix that I saw that Microsoft has change by some groups form “c:0-.f|rolemanager” to “c:0t.c|tenant”. Can anybody please explain why the do the change? And where I can read about it?

Thanks

Stefan

  • I'm not really aware of this issue or the change behind of it. Please open an official SharePoint Online support case for asking details, so that the request would fall on the official process.

  • Terry Hagan's avatar
    Terry Hagan
    Iron Contributor

    Just happened on our tenant also. What a farce, I use these groups in various scenarios, nothing from Microsoft as usual!

    • Staffan_Nelemans1's avatar
      Staffan_Nelemans1
      Copper Contributor

      Just made a support ticket and got the following response:

      "This is by design. This tenant is using the objectID as the claim encoded loginName in userinfo. This is something that all tenants will be transitioned to in the future. We will start using objectID instead of SID values for groups within SPO. "

      • Terry Hagan's avatar
        Terry Hagan
        Iron Contributor
        Typical Microsoft response, I think we all realise that this is "by design" the point is that they roll it out without telling anyone!
  • Same here. We have duplicate "Company Administrators" now with the “c:0-.f|rolemanager” one being outdated . This is messing up scripts for us. What does this change mean?
    • Drew Madelung's avatar
      Drew Madelung
      MVP

      I am now seeing this as well and it is affecting our provisioning. 

  • Arjen Bloemsma's avatar
    Arjen Bloemsma
    Copper Contributor

    Same happend in our tenant. Seems over the weekend something has changed without any heads up, which now is causing our sites to be provisioned (using PnP Provisioning templates) without the correct permissions.

    • StefanKi's avatar
      StefanKi
      Iron Contributor

      It is very interesting respond. The change of the internal group names comes over a time period in different tenants. What says MS to it?

       

      VesaJuvonen can you please somting to it?

      • VesaJuvonen's avatar
        VesaJuvonen
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        I'm not really aware of this issue or the change behind of it. Please open an official SharePoint Online support case for asking details, so that the request would fall on the official process.

  • Derek J Gusoff's avatar
    Derek J Gusoff
    Copper Contributor

    This is breaking provisioning code for me as well. It doesn't seem that EnsureUser works with the new ID, whereas it worked with the old one. Has anybody been able to use EnsureUser against one of the new IDs?

    • Derek Gusoff's avatar
      Derek Gusoff
      Brass Contributor

      For what it's worth Web.EnsureUser no longer works using App-Only permission but still works using the new IDs and user authenticated ClientContext. So I'm back in business.

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