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 […]
There is a new feature published at Microsoft roadmap site: Microsoft 365 admin center: Manage ownerless Microsoft 365 groups and teams Teams, Outlook groups, Team Sites etc. powered by Microsoft 365 Groups supports two roles: members and owners. Members can collaborate with others in the group through files, emails, messages etc. Owners manage the group […]
What if you need to bulk update Microsoft 365 groups membership e.g. to add a group owner or member for tens of thousands m365 groups? Iterating through groups one-by-one is unproductive and could take days. Can we do it faster? Here is what I found. In my case, it was Microsoft 365 ownerless groups policy […]
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 […]
As SharePoint or Teams admin you manage Microsoft 365 groups (create, update, delete, manage membership etc.) having your admin role activated. I prefer PowerShell 7 and Microsoft.Graph PowerShell module, and I need an Azure registered app with “Group.ReadWrite.All” Microsoft Graph API delegated permission. Some findings: If a user was not a group member or group […]