May 04 2018 03:20 AM
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 ?
May 04 2018 03:25 AM
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?
May 04 2018 04:23 AM
May 04 2018 04:31 AM
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.
IMHO, a nice addition but not a game changer...
May 04 2018 04:52 AM
that is not a surprise, the inability to find old announcements in the Message Center continues to be a disappointment
May 04 2018 04:54 AM
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)
May 04 2018 08:00 AM
May 04 2018 08:05 AM
May 07 2018 12:54 PM
Hi all,
I helped make this improvement happen so if you have any questions, hit me :) Message center post may have expired unfortunately but the documentation has been updated.
There were two pieces to the change:
1) Make it clear who is receiving access requests (especially since it used to default to "someone@example.com" which I'm pretty sure doesn't help ;). It's now clear if you're selecting the default (owners) or another e-mail address of your choice.
2) Show a custom message on the access request page.
Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
May 07 2018 02:52 PM
Some anomalies:
In a Community Site (/sites/...) it references the Owners Group.
In a Office 365 Groups connected Site (/sites/...) (group started in Yammer) it references the "Admins" group
In a Classic Team Site site (/teams/...) in some of them I see Members and some I see Owners.
May 08 2018 10:18 AM
Hi @Kevin Crossman,
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
May 11 2018 03:36 AM
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?
May 18 2018 11:07 AM
Hi @Dean Gross,
If the user is requesting access to a site, I believe that option does exist. We don't offer it for document access requests as the end result is the user getting access to additional content (which may not be intended). If this is something you'd like to see, feel free to suggest it on User Voice though! Thanks,
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
May 22 2018 11:00 PM
May 22 2018 11:01 PM
May 30 2018 11:24 AM - edited May 30 2018 11:24 AM
Hi @Andrew Silcock,
Your descriptions match my understanding as well :) We don't hear a lot of feedback on these particular strings but I'll keep this in mind next time we mess with the page (so we can hopefully make things a little clearer).
And I would love to see access requests surfaced there as well. Nothing in the works yet but definitely on my personal wish list ;)
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
May 31 2018 06:04 PM
Jun 29 2018 04:02 AM
hi Stephen
its a great feature but today I came upon a site I set up way back when. For this site the 'group' option greyed out and says 'no owner group defined'. The site definitely has an owner group. any ideas how I can fix this?
thanks
Ella
Jun 29 2018 08:47 AM
Hi @Ella Visani,
What type of site are you on? Can you send me a screenshot of what you are seeing? Thanks!
Stephen Rice
OneDrive Program Manager II
Jul 03 2018 03:33 PM - edited Jul 03 2018 03:50 PM
Hi Ella,
You might have deleted the default site owners group from site.
Thank you,
Vijay