Office 365 how to manage a group without adding yourself as owner.

Question

Sometimes we need to enter the group in order to assist our staff members. We have not found any other way besides adding ourselves as owners of the group. Because without that we get a "permission denied" message when we try to enter it. Even with Global Admin permissions.

The reason this is a problem is because we get a lot of unwanted emails, calendar items etc.

I made a case with Office 365 support on this and I was told this is by design. Seems like a really bad design. Was hoping there was a reasonable work around for this.

Answer 1

I suppose it depends on which tasks exactly you need to perform. PowerShell and the Graph API should cover most "owner" operations, but there are a handful which you need to perform via the clients, or each member can only perform themselves (subscribing to calendar for example, connectors, etc).

Answer 2

Hi @Nikolai Matveev ,

I don't think there is any workaround for this, it is by design that you have no access to the group/team site if you don't have enough permission level in that group even if you are a Microsoft 365 global administrator. I'm afraid the best and the only way is to add yourselves as owners of the group. You can unsubscribe those emails unwanted.

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