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Diamond Contributor

Feb 04, 2019

Everyone except external users disappears form Group Visitors

Hi, For the group site when we add "Everyone except external users" to the "Site visitors" to grant people R/O access, it disappears in a while from the Site visitors and people lost access. Addin...

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Pieter Op De Beéck

Iron Contributor

Feb 28, 2019

Slightly related to this, I have issue with the "Everyone except external users" on Public groups! I want to make an exception and give them Read permissions. As a result, "Everyone except external users" is stored in the underlying Visitors (Read) group. After a couple of days, "Everyone except external users" is back in the Members group and have back their Edit permissions.
This is not a single event - this is the case for all our Public O365 Groups where we want to give them only Read permissions. Anyone has the same issues on their tenant? Ours is located in W-Europe.

SergeiBaklan

Diamond Contributor

Mar 02, 2019

Interesting, didn't see such. Based on discussion here https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-SharePoint-Blog/Modernize-your-SharePoint-team-sites-by-connecting-them-to-new/bc-p/356981#M3416 'everyone' shall not work with Members/Visitors for public/private groups by design. Instead we have unpredictable behaviour of 'everyone' being added to one of these groups.