Groups not showing up in Sharepoint site Permission

Question

Hi
I am trying to move SharePoint Groups from one site collection to another . In target site the SharePoint groups are got created. But the SP groups are showing in groups.aspx not in user.aspx
Also when i click the group name in groups.aspx, it throws error that Group cannot be found. Also unable to create with the same group name .

How to delete SharePoint custom group using Memebershipgroup id.

Answer 1

in Sharepoint site collection is security boundary. Which means that each site collection has own collection of users (SPUser collection) and groups (SPGroup collection). I.e. if you remove specific user (SPUser) or group (SPGroup) from siteColA - it will be removed only in this siteColA site collection. If another site collection siteColB has SPUser which corresponds to the same user (or SPGroup which has the same name) - they will be kept untouched in siteColB.

For your specific problem - try to check target site's groups via PowerShell:

$site = Get-SPSite http://example.com
$site.RootWeb.SiteGroups

will these "broken" groups be shown in the output? If yes - try to remove it using PowerShell:

$groupName = ...
$site.RootWeb.SiteGroups.Remove($groupName)