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TobiasAT
Iron Contributor
Sep 08, 2016
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Wrong mail address in Access Request Settings

In SharePoint sites you have the option to define an email address in the Access Request options. The option is always enabled by default. Unfortunately with the static address someone@example.com. I verified the wrong mail address in normal SharePoint sites and personal sites (OneDrive for Business).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In modern team sites I don't know, the menu is not available.

 

  1. I assume it's not just "our issue". I verified the situation in 3 other tenants. I think it's a bug and the address should be renamed, for instance to the first site admin of the site.  Where should I report that issue?
  2. I found no property in the SharePoint Online Powershell cmdlets to modify that option. In SharePoint On-premise it's the property RequestAccessEmail, see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spweb.requestaccessemail.aspx. That property is not available in SPO cmdlets. How can we modify the address without an user interaction?
  3. Is it fixed in the modern team sites?

Regards

Tobias

SharePoint Online
  • SanthoshB1's avatar
    SanthoshB1
    Sep 09, 2016

    RequestAccessEmail property is supported in SharePoint Online. You can use the below PowerShell script to set the RequestAccessEmail. 

     

    $SiteUrl = "https://<TenantName>.sharepoint.com/sites/<Sitename>" 
$UserName = "admin@<TenantName>..onmicrosoft.com" 
$Password ="password"
$loadInfo1 = [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint.Client")
$loadInfo2 = [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime")
$loadInfo3 = [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserProfiles")
#$sstr = ConvertTo-SecureString -string $AdminPass -AsPlainText -Force
$Securepass = ConvertTo-SecureString $Password -AsPlainText -Force
$context = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($SiteUrl)
$context.Credentials = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($UserName,$Securepass)
$Web = $context.Web
$AllProperties=$Web.AllProperties
$context.Load($Web)
$context.Load($AllProperties)
$context.ExecuteQuery()
$Web.RequestAccessEmail="alexd@<TenantName>.onmicrosoft.com"
$web.Update();
$web.Context.ExecuteQuery()

     

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  • SanthoshB1's avatar
    SanthoshB1
    Bronze Contributor
    Sep 09, 2016

    RequestAccessEmail property is supported in SharePoint Online. You can use the below PowerShell script to set the RequestAccessEmail. 

     

    $SiteUrl = "https://<TenantName>.sharepoint.com/sites/<Sitename>" 
$UserName = "admin@<TenantName>..onmicrosoft.com" 
$Password ="password"
$loadInfo1 = [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint.Client")
$loadInfo2 = [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.Runtime")
$loadInfo3 = [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.UserProfiles")
#$sstr = ConvertTo-SecureString -string $AdminPass -AsPlainText -Force
$Securepass = ConvertTo-SecureString $Password -AsPlainText -Force
$context = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.ClientContext($SiteUrl)
$context.Credentials = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.Client.SharePointOnlineCredentials($UserName,$Securepass)
$Web = $context.Web
$AllProperties=$Web.AllProperties
$context.Load($Web)
$context.Load($AllProperties)
$context.ExecuteQuery()
$Web.RequestAccessEmail="alexd@<TenantName>.onmicrosoft.com"
$web.Update();
$web.Context.ExecuteQuery()

     

    • TobiasAT's avatar
      TobiasAT
      Iron Contributor
      Sep 15, 2016

      The last days the property RequestAccessEmail was available and I could change the mail address. Since today I get always an error "Property 'RequestAccessEmail' cannot be found on this object; make sure it exists and is settable.". The property is not longer listed in the members. Can someone verify the issue, or is it just on my side?

      • SanthoshB1's avatar
        SanthoshB1
        Bronze Contributor
        Sep 15, 2016
        I have tried this in 2 tenants and it worked fine. Not sure what the problem may be. Can you able to perform this from this from Site Settings UI as in your screenshot?
    • TobiasAT's avatar
      TobiasAT
      Iron Contributor
      Sep 13, 2016

      Thanks for the hint, works as it should.

  • Deleted's avatar
    Deleted
    Sep 09, 2016

    I use CSOM to do that:

    Web rootweb = ctx.Site.RootWeb;
ctx.Load(rootweb, w => w.MembersCanShare);
ctx.ExecuteQueryRetry();
SharingConfiguration sharingSettings = configurationData.ToConfigObject<SharingConfiguration>();
// Set MembersCanShare, default to false
rootweb.MembersCanShare = sharingSettings.Sharing.MembersCanShare ? sharingSettings.Sharing.MembersCanShare : false;
rootweb.Update();
ctx.Load(rootweb, w => w.AssociatedMemberGroup.AllowMembersEditMembership);
ctx.ExecuteQueryRetry();
// Set AllowMembersEditMembership, default to false
rootweb.AssociatedMemberGroup.AllowMembersEditMembership = sharingSettings.Sharing.AllowMembersEditMembership ? sharingSettings.Sharing.AllowMembersEditMembership : false;
rootweb.AssociatedMemberGroup.Update();
ctx.ExecuteQueryRetry();
ctx.Load(rootweb, w => w.RequestAccessEmail);
ctx.ExecuteQueryRetry();
rootweb.RequestAccessEmail = sharingSettings.Sharing.RequestAccessEmail;
rootweb.Update();
ctx.ExecuteQueryRetry();

     

    I have seen the same issue with a few other clients as well that is why i provision them direct with above code.

     

    kr

     

    Paul

     

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