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User In Owner Role - No Search Results
While investigating a search problem (in Group enabled Team Sites) with MS Support, I discovered that if an account in an Office Group is assigned to the Owner Role, but not to the Member Role it wil...
Well considering when your an owner you get added as a site collection admin to a site it should be irrelevant. Are you adding to the SharePoint owner group then accessing the site? I know it takes awhile for the owner to get added on as a site collection admin but that does seem kind of odd?
As a follow up, I have found a bug that prevents search results from being returned as expected in Group enabled Team site searches
- If the Office Group is Public and the user is only in the Group Owner role, then searching works as expected.
- If the Office Group is Private, then searching does Not work as expected. A user that is only in the Group Owner role does not get any search results - adding the user to the Group Member role causes the search results to be returned, but this should not be necessary.
This bug does not affect users that are in Group Member role.
I am working with MS Support to get this fixed.
Geir-Magnus Pettersen@ can you offer any information about this?
Geir-Magnus PettersenMicrosoft
I will try to reproduce this issue to see what migth be the problem.- Geir-Magnus Pettersen
I just tried creating a new private teamsite from sharepoint home/portal. Added an extra user as owner in the creation process. But searching with the extra user added as additional owner worked in the private modern team site.
Am I doing this wrong, could you provide some additional steps on how you added the extra user only as owner of the group?
This problem occurs when I add a user to the Owners role of the Office group in either, the O365 Admin Center Group page or in Azure AD Group management page. By using these tools, the account does not get assigned automatically to the Member Role also.
- Thanks for posting this. I ran across the same issue today. Was scratching my head why an owner could not search but a member with read only rights could search and get results.
Big thumbs up.!!
