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Iron Contributor

Jun 19, 2019

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How to use SharePoint Groups in Team Sites

Utilizing SharePoint groups to secure content for a specific set of users on a site is a very common scenario. We use this as a best practice for keeping track of who has access to content that bre...

Office 365 Groups

kevinmckeown8
Jun 19, 2019
Eric Adler while it isn't shown in the Settings page anymore, you can still get to the People and Groups page of any site by appending "_layouts/15/groups.aspx" to its URL.

Example: https://sitename.sharepoint.com/sites/teamname/_layouts/15/groups.aspx

From here you can add/remove/modify SharePoint Security Groups like you are accustomed too.

MVP

Jun 19, 2019

The access to the team sites is based upon the membership of the office 365 group! You can alter read / write for them or add sharepoint groups to the site

Eric Adler
Iron Contributor
Jun 19, 2019
adam deltinger The use case, however, is extending the site permissions beyond the group. In an Office 365 group, you have the ability to apply permissions to the group OR the site only. This makes the site more flexible. I would expect the site to work like any site, but I cannot find where to manage SharePoint groups.
- adam deltinger
  MVP
  Jun 19, 2019
  Go to advanced permissions! From there you can add any sharepoint group
  - Eric Adler
    Iron Contributor
    Jun 19, 2019
    adam deltinger That's kinda the point of my post. "People and Groups" is no longer available in the advanced settings.
    
    While you can add a group, however, unless you give it site permissions you can't see it, edit users, etc... A key value of SharePoint groups is providing unique permissions to a list/library/folder etc..., not adding general site access.
    This is available on all other types of SharePoint sites and has been forever.
    As you can see in the screenshot "Users and Permissions" is not available.

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