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Defining access requirements in SharePoint - SharePoint Tutorial
From the course: SharePoint Admin Essential Training
Defining access requirements in SharePoint
- [Instructor] Although access to information within a SharePoint site is managed by the site admins, I think it's important for the overall SharePoint admin to understand the concepts behind effective management. When it comes to managing access in SharePoint, it's not just about what people are accessing. It's about who they are and how they fit into the bigger picture. While your first instinct may be to grant permissions directly to individual users, that approach can quickly turn into a tangled mess of exceptions, guessworks, and late-night troubleshooting. The better way, think groups, not individuals. In SharePoint, everyone who needs access should belong to a group, and permissions should always be assigned at the group level. This makes managing access easier, more consistent, and far less error-prone. For example, instead of giving each member of your marketing team individual access to a library, create a marketing group, assign the group the appropriate permissions, and…
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