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Everyone except external users disappears form Group Visitors
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.
Pieter Op De BeéckWe have the same problem (in a Dutch company, so also W-Europe tenant). I thought it must have been a single event changing the group permissions of dozens of our SharePoint sites from read to contribute for the "Everyone except external users" group. But in the audit logs I cannot find anything that happened there, and indeed it can be the case that it happens automatically after some time.
Earlier I found out the Privacy setting of the Group in Teams (in the Edit Team menu) configured after the group permission in the SharePoint site was set effects the private/public setting of the SharePoint site so it can be the cause of our problems. In that case there is no possibility to have SharePoint site where everyone can read, the project team can contribute, and where only the project team can chat in Teams without others reading/editing in Teams as well. Then you have to make private groups, because in the end O365 syncs the different privacy settings on different spots.
MVHBakkerMS states it is by design in this post (march 2019): https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4492201/everyone-except-external-users-group-is-removed
- Just a precision, this post is for Private group, not Public group.
