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Best Practices for Permissions on an O365 Group SharePoint Site
Hi all,
Is it correct that when creating a group the default permissions for members is "Edit" and not "Contribute" correct?
Is it possible to change(e.g. to contribute) this when provisioning? Is it wrong to think that the default permissions for members is a bit much? I mean they have the potential to mess up things just because they can.
Cheers
Brent Ellis wrote:
That is accurate. And I whole-heartedly agree with bumping it down to contribute. We do that manually right now.
We do the same.I know this is a dormant thread, but just in case I'd be interested in ongoing developments on this thread. Launching a number of group/team sites and would love to be able to kick members down to contribute rights.
We do the same.
Can somebody please shed some light here -
When an Office 365 group is created, the Owners group in the Sharepoint team site has no user added to it !
Now, when we reduce the permissions of the Members group to contribute, there is no user in the site, who can then manage the permissions on the site !!
Its strange, why isn't the user who created the Office 365 group added as an Owner in the site. Or am I missing something here ?
In the current Groups UI, site permissions are managed in the new pane accessible from the cog menu:
And, as clearly stated, owners and members should be managed only by OWA.
- I am not sure why but I don't see the note "To view or change the group members..." as you have indicated in your screenshot. But that apart, the outlook interface will only allow us to add members to the group which are directly added to the AD group.
Now that we have a full team site, people are going to want to manage permissions directly in team site on the list, libraries etc or for that matter provide access to the users to only READ the content. I was trying something similar and was baffled to see the owners group empty.
Hi Vipul Kelkar,
I guess, this is a GUI issue, because I have the same problem. I cannot see the users in the regarding groups. However, when I check the permissions, I can see that regarding users should have permission due to the membership of regarding permission group.
Microsoft would say, this is by Design, although it's actually a GUI bug. ;-) Hope, this will be fixed.
- Ah ! well thanks for that. So the user IS an owner in the site.
Hi Brent Ellis, When you say manually do you mean you set the default when you provision the Group e.g. via powershell? Would love to know :)
- Nah, straight up manually, navigate to user.aspx and click change permission
It is ironic though, with all the user interface changes "taking away" capabilities from site admins, why not load down the regular members with more than they need- Thanks! Good to know I can change it even manually :/ hope they address this in the future.
