Microsoft 365 groups is a key concept in today’s collaboration landscape that includes Microsoft Teams, Viva Engage, SharePoint etc. Access to resources is organized via groups. It is essential that every Microsoft 365 group has an owner (owners) so we have somebody to enforce Collaboration governance through. Scenario Let say you administer a large Microsoft […]
Here is the scenario: There is a team (including SharePoint site) under Microsoft Teams. There are multiple channels under this team with types:– standard channel– shared channel – private channel A single group owner (team owner) leaves company and the team (group) becomes ownerless. Question: what will happen with private and shared channels? A group […]
What is archiving SharePoint sites and why we’d need it? Disclaimer: Archival that was announced at Microsoft Inspire 2023 (Introducing Microsoft 365 Backup and Microsoft 365 Archive) is not what we are discussing here.Though it might be considered as an option (as archived sites are still visible for admins but not visible for users), MS […]
I have multiple publications on the subject – how to manage ownerless groups in Microsoft 365: And 9 videos : Here is the Introduction video and content covered in next videos:
If you are seeing “Ownerless group policy configuration failed” and “Please try again.” error message: there might be some different reasons: Note: Groups admin when configuring the policy can see warning message “You don’t have permissions to save changes”. No worries 🙂 => You will be able to save changes 🙂 Video tutorial on the […]
This post is dedicated to one specific subject: implementing Microsoft 365 groups lifecycle (expiration) policy in large Microsoft 365 environments. But this post is also a part of a bigger problem – dealing with ownerless resources in Large Microsoft 365 environments. Please refer to the umbrella post. Scenario You administer a large Microsoft 365 environment. […]
Nobody likes garbage, including Microsoft 365 administrators. If any user can create a team or yammer community – they create, but then they leave company and we are getting more and more abandoned groups, teams and SharePoint sites. So we need a way to clean up environment. There is a Microsoft 365 groups expiration policy […]
Microsoft’s ownerless groups policy detects ownerless groups and invites most active groups members to be a group owners then automatically elevates a person to group owner. The policy was designed mostly to prevent ownerless groups.
The challenge is how to implement the policy correctly if there are already many ownerless groups present. Let us
come up with approach and strategy to implement Microsoft’s ownerless groups policy in large environment.