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Adding an Entra Group as Site Collection Admins to all sites in SharePoint online
I am trying to get an Entra Group added as SCA to every SPO site in my tenant, I have found the claim ID for the Group but when the script is run using an account with SharePoint Admin, some sites work, some fail with various errors, below is a few:
- Failed: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))
- Failed: User cannot be found.
- Failed: Attempted to perform an unauthorized operation.
- Failed: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a receive.
- Failed: The underlying connection was closed: A connection that was expected to be kept alive was closed by the server.
I am struggling to see why this fails, I am SharePoint Admin, have connected to sposervice ok, sure this was run a few years ago without issue, there are just over 9,500 sites showing in SP Admin.
- It's better if you share a minimum reproducible example of the script you are using and share the full error, and in which command the issue occurs.
As alternative you can use this free and open-source application, which can handle adding an account as SCA across all sites in the tenant; https://github.com/Barbarur/NovaPoint
