Add Or Remove Owner

Add or remove a Office 365 group owner

Description

This runbook adds a user as an owner of a group or removes an existing owner. For Microsoft 365 groups, it also ensures that newly added owners are members of the group. Use the Remove switch to remove ownership instead of adding it.

Location

Group → General → Add Or Remove Owner

Full Runbook name

rjgit-group_general_add-or-remove-owner

Permissions

Application permissions

• Type: Microsoft Graph

  • User.Read.All

  • Group.ReadWrite.All

  • GroupMember.ReadWrite.All

• Type: Office 365 Exchange Online

  • Exchange.ManageAsApp

RBAC roles

• Exchange administrator

Parameters

GroupID

Object ID of the target group.

Property	Value
Required	true
Default Value
Type	String

UserId

Object ID of the user to add or remove.

Property	Value
Required	true
Default Value
Type	String

Remove

"Add User as Owner" (final value: $false) or "Remove User as Owner" (final value: $true) can be selected as action to perform. If set to true, the runbook will remove the user from the group owners. If set to false, it will add the user as an owner of the group.

Property	Value
Required	false
Default Value	False
Type	Boolean

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