[BUG] New-PNPGroup -Owner property does not work with Group

[SPDEVGUY]

Reporting an Issue or Missing Feature

Issue

Expected behavior

When making a new group, I expect to be able to use an existing group (Site Owner Group) as an owner of the new group.

Actual behavior

Group is created, error message "Group cannot be found", and the group owner on the new group is set to my current user.

Steps to reproduce behavior

$w = get-pnpWeb
$spOwnerGroup = get-pnpproperty -ClientObject $w -Property AssociatedOwnerGroup

$spGroup = new-pnpGroup `
        -Description "testing group with owner set to site owner group ($($spOwnerGroup.Title))" `
        -Owner $spOwnerGroup `
        -Title "New group test"

Receive error:
New-PnPGroup: Group cannot be found.

Group is created on site, but the Owner is not set to the SP Owner Group, it is set to my account.

What is the version of the Cmdlet module you are running?

2.12.0 Windows.

Which operating system/environment are you running PnP PowerShell on?

• Windows
• Linux
• MacOS
• Azure Cloud Shell
• Azure Functions
• Other : please specify

[SPDEVGUY]

This will work if you provide.

-Owner $spOwnerGroup.LoginName

However, it really should be able to accept an SPGroup as a binding....