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Updated a few errors in the explanation and added some additional details on how the Microsoft 365 Groups work with SharePoint Online
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title: Site permissions after Microsoft 365 group connection
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description: Connect a Microsoft 365 group to an existing SharePoint site does have an impact on the SharePoint site permissions, which is explained in this article
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ms.date: 06/19/2018
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ms.date: 03/09/2021
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ms.prod: sharepoint
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- The Microsoft 365 group Owners get connected to both the site collection administrators as the site owners group: everyone who’s Microsoft 365 group owner also has site collection admin permissions on the SharePoint site
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- The Microsoft 365 group members get connected to the site members group: everyone who’s Microsoft 365 group member is has the permissions which are granted to the SharePoint site’s Members group
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- Any other permissions granted on the SharePoint site stay as is (so for example viewers will still have view access, broken permission inheritance stays working as is,…)
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- Permissions flow from the Microsoft 365 group to SharePoint: adding a person to the Office 365 Owners group will also make that person an Owner (even Administrator) of the SharePoint site
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- There a no permissions flowing back to the Microsoft 365 group: if you add a person to the SharePoint Owners group then that person is not an Owner of the group
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- Any other permissions granted on the SharePoint site stay as is, so for example viewers will still have view access, broken permission inheritance stays working as is
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- Permissions "flow" from the Microsoft 365 group to SharePoint: adding a person to the Microsoft 365 Owners group will also make that person an Owner (even Administrator) of the SharePoint site
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- There a no permissions "flowing back" to the Microsoft 365 group: if you add a person to the SharePoint Owners group then that person is not an Owner of the group
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![Site permissions after group connection](media/modernize/groupifypermissions_1.png)
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## Technical implementation
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Each Microsoft 365 group has an unique id represented as a guid (e.g e79452da-a8cf-47c5-afbf-83c8704867c2). This guid is used to construct 2 claims:
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Each Microsoft 365 group has an unique id represented as a guid (e.g e79452da-a8cf-47c5-afbf-83c8704867c2). This guid corresponds with the object Id of the Microsoft 365 Group in Azure Active Directory and is used to construct 2 claims:
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- e79452da-a8cf-47c5-afbf-83c8704867c2_o: this claim represents the Microsoft 365 group owners
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- e79452da-a8cf-47c5-afbf-83c8704867c2: this claim represents the Microsoft 365 group members
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These claims are added to the SharePoint site according to below logic:
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These claims are added to the SharePoint site using the prefix _c:0o.c|federateddirectoryclaimprovider|_ according to below logic:
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- The e79452da-a8cf-47c5-afbf-83c8704867c2 claim (so the Microsoft 365 group members) is added as a **visible** principal to the site's members group having as title your site's name
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- The e79452da-a8cf-47c5-afbf-83c8704867c2_o claim (so the Microsoft 365 group owners) is added as **hidden** principal to the site's owners group and site collection administrators
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- The e79452da-a8cf-47c5-afbf-83c8704867c2 claim (so the Microsoft 365 group members) is added as a **visible** principal to the site's members group having as title your site's initial name
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- The e79452da-a8cf-47c5-afbf-83c8704867c2_o claim (so the Microsoft 365 group owners) is added as a **visible** principal to the site's site collection administrators having as title your site's initial name
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- The e79452da-a8cf-47c5-afbf-83c8704867c2_o claim (so the Microsoft 365 group owners) is added as a **hidden** principal to the site's owners group
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## See also
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