Logs showed the failure was a transient 403 on the tenant admin endpoint
(loading CurrentUser on -admin.sharepoint.com returned E_ACCESSDENIED on a
cold token), and that re-running the operation a few seconds later succeeded.
The site-collection admin grant is also eventually consistent on Group/Teams
sites, taking a few seconds to reach the content endpoint.
Retry both stages with backoff (3s, 6s, 9s; 4 attempts) instead of failing
on the first denial:
- ElevateAsync retries the admin-endpoint grant on transient access-denied; a
genuine lack of tenant-admin rights still surfaces after retries exhaust.
- After a successful grant, the post-elevation operation retries on continued
access-denied to absorb grant-propagation lag.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
kawaandClaude Opus 4.8
881f3a8bac