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Illuminate
Copper Contributor
Jun 12, 2020
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Securing Wiki

I want to secure a wiki. I have changed the access privileges in SharePoint to Read Only for Team members but they are still able to edit the wiki. The weird thing is that if I open Sharepoint then t...
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    ChristianBergstrom
    Jun 30, 2020

    Illuminate Hello! Thanks for the update, that's handy to know! (never tried it as I mentioned).

     

    How about using OneNote within Teams instead? It's a much better overall experience comparing to the Wiki and you can secure it with password-protected sections (but not entire notebooks) using encryption. To add to that you have the sharing/permissions options as well. 

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ChristianBergstrom
Silver Contributor
Jun 30, 2020

Illuminate Hello! Thanks for the update, that's handy to know! (never tried it as I mentioned).

 

How about using OneNote within Teams instead? It's a much better overall experience comparing to the Wiki and you can secure it with password-protected sections (but not entire notebooks) using encryption. To add to that you have the sharing/permissions options as well. 

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Illuminate
Copper Contributor
Jun 30, 2020

Thanks ChristianBergstrom I will look into that. I was also thinking about using Sharepoint site pages but OneNote would be easier to manage. I have never tried to secure OneNote in Teams and it would be interesting to see how it works since the Wiki is actually built on OneNote.