Why on Private Group Member can view a button named “Invite People”, while they can not share the Group not the site

Question

We have created a Private Office 365 Group, where in this case members of the group can not share the group with others + we are not allow users to share the sharepoint site with other.

here is the private setting:-

here is the setting to prevent users from sharing the sharepoint site:-

but even we define the above settings, still Group's Members can view the "Invite People" button, as follow:-

and most surprising that they can view the button and invite others to join the group and/or the site, but no invitation will be sent.. so is there a bug inside sharepoint where this button "Invite People" should not be shown to member users?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi, @john john ,
I tested with several groups in separate tenants, and one user behave the same as a group member. Please remove the user from the group and add again to check if such behavior remains.

By default, a member can add members in outlook while it needs the approval from the group owner. Like the screenshot below.

And in SharePoint site, the member can view the invite people button. However when the user clicks on the "Add members to group" option, he can only view the current members, no button displayed for him to actually add member.

Member's view:

Owner's view:

For sharing sites, you need to set sharing settings to restrict users from sharing contents inside the site.

If this does not help, I suggest you to open a service request about this behavior.

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