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Item level permissions report
Hello Folks,
In one of our customer environments, there seems to be a few cases where item level permissions have been used extensively and the person who was maintaining those items has left the company.
a) what is the best way to get a report of items having permissions at the item level on each library in a site collection?
b) I have seen that there is an option now while giving access to a library to cascade the permissions to item level as well, is this also possible when giving a person / group access to a site so that it can cascade across all libraries / items where unique permissions have been given? This would really help perform a cleanup.
I have found that when I go talk to the business users, there is seldom a very good reason for Item level permissions and I can frequently just reset inheritance.
- For a) I would recommend to use a third party tool such as SharePoint Documentation Toolkit....it's great to get this information. In regards of b) not sure what you mean
jcgonzalezmartin for b), here is an example of a situation - image a site has a few libraries where the owner of the site has given contribute rights to certain individuals. the "Full control" permissions on those items are retained only by this specific site owner.
Now, the owner has moved out of the company and no one else (except Site collection admin) has "Full control" permissions on those items.
So were looking at the best way to identify those items and provide "full control" permissions to the new owner in a wasy way,
- Understood...same recommendation: think on investing in the SharePoint Documentation Toolkit from Acceleratio
