That is microsofts response? just leave it alone? are you kidding me? thats not a SOLUTION!!! its barely even a work around!!!
users leave all the time. Come on MS!
BTW this has nothing to do with office365. Normal sharepoint foundation does this as well, so probably all sharepoints.
I will let you know if i find a real solution to get these old users out of there. I have a case where a user went on mat leave, was deleted, and when they cam back were created with the exact same username and it still fails to delete the request. So i
have two requests permanently suck and prompting me till the end of time? COME ON
EDIT: OK i fixed it here we go for solution. First off, use this microsoft article to figure out the GUID of the list:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2911390/en-us
I will spare you reading that, because it of course has inaccurate information in it (request body instead of RESPONSE body) and i find alot of microsoft docs make small errors like that.. anyways i reproduced the good parts below.
- Load up Internet Explorer. Press F12 to open the F12 Developer Tools window.
- Click the Network tab, and then press F5 to enable network traffic capturing.
- Refresh the Access Requests page in Internet Explorer. After the page has loaded, press Shift+F5 to stop capturing network traffic.
- In the Developer Tools window, double-click the first result in the URL list. This URL ends in "pendingreq.aspx."
- In the Developer Tools window, click DETAILS -> RESPONSE body.
- In the search box, type pagelistid:, and then press Enter.
- You will then find the GUID. Copy it to a text document.
- Using the GUID of the access request list, create a URL to edit the list: https://SHAREPOINT_LIST/_layouts/15/ListEdit.aspx?List={GUID_GOES_HERE}
- Now open that URL in a web browser. if it works, great! double check your permissions on the list, however for me, the permissions were of course correct, that wasn't the problem. the problem was the users were deleted. So now we need to get creative to
delete those items!!
- Make a VIEW for the list. Name it what you want but be sure to include "EDIT link to edit item" "ID" and "Person"
- Then simply view the view and use the edit button to delete the problematic entry
problem SOLVED. no more prompting, no users stuck till the end of time, with just a little bit of sharepoint-fu used.
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Edited by
sharepointisneedlesslycomplex
Friday, June 19, 2015 8:40 PM