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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 Beéck , did you find the issue or get information from Microsoft?
On my side I had the worst experience with the escalation team ever... First line of support tells me they can replicate the issue. Then another level of support tell me they can't replicate the issue. Then the escalation team say that this is a known behavior and it is how public group site should work!! So I start to feel they are making fun of me because in my last discussion they tell me they can't reproduce the issue BUT it is a know behavior and it is how it should work...... So how come they can't reproduce the behavior?? So the end of the story is
1) The UI gives you the ability to change permissions for Everyone Except External Users from Edit To Read in public group site
2) If the permissions are set back to edit, well this is how it should work but they can't do it on their side!!
Also, there is a thread on PowerShell PnP where someone creating a public site and setting EEEU from edit to read change back after a couple of minutes after.... https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint/Pnp-provisoning-issue-with-permissions-for-Everyone-except/td-p/388518
What a mess...
See here too
https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/OfficeDocs-SharePoint/pull/928
nenonix , Escalation team is saying that setting read permissions on "Everyone Except External Users" may (or will ??) revert to Edit caused by a background job on public group site and is a normal behavior..... Ticket closed!!!
It's a none sense to me. I asked them to document this behavior because it is not documented. They said they will... I'm eager to read user comments when they will document this !!
So why providing the option to change permissions on public group site if everyone will always have edit access anyway? Go find out....
Martin-Coupal I think you should join the discussion on GitHub or add feedback on the document in question. The docs are opensource now, so anyone can contribute. (I work on the freelance team that helps to resolve issues on GitHub and I saw this discussion while trying to figure out a change that mentioned this, but did not explain it very well). You can open a new issue on the content page that should be changed - perhaps this one: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/understanding-permission-levels (scroll to the bottom and add your feedback to "this page" to open an issue on GitHub) is where to request that this be documented.
