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SharePoint Access Requests Settings
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 t...
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...
Thanks, it looks like this is just a slight improvement over the classic SP site access request process and will still result in requesters getting added to the SP Member group instead of to the connected Office Group (which is what I'm still hoping to get)