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Automatic Access for members of a security group to a Sharepoint Site.
Which permission/permission level are you adding to those groups on SharePoint sites?
Security Group members shouldn't have any problems accessing SharePoint, when permissions are correctly set.
Matti_Paukkonen
Hi Matti. The users are in an email-enabled Security group and I'm trying to give them Edit access.
Here's my steps....
- In M365 admin panel, Create a Security group containing all the members that will be allowed on the site.
- Create Sharepoint site
- Enter SharePoint site's Documents Page
- Click on Settings cog > Site permissions > Advanced Permissions
- Grant Permissions > Add Security group
- Select 'Invite People' and select the security group I created.
- Click 'Show Options'
- Untick 'Send an email Invitation'
- In 'Select a permission Level' Dropdown Select 'Edit', Then 'Share'
- Refresh the page to confirm the Security group was added to the root permission.
- Click on Check Permissions to make sure the user has access
- Send the user a link to the documents page of the site
- Ask the user to try to access using the link.
- The user tries to access but gets stuck at "Sorry, you don't have access." access Request Page
Is this issue just for a specific document or for the whole site ? Can the user access other parts of the site such as landing page, library etc?
Is the user using the correct account? so they don't have two accounts or are guests
Hi there. Seem to missed this response. Apologies for the late reply.
It's for the whole site. There are no members entered directly into SharePoint. They're all added by a Security Group.
In the Site Permissions area, it look like this
Sec-EntityA-Staff
EntityA Members
- EntityA Members
EntityA Owners
- Blank
EntityA Visitors
-Blank
Or should I be doing it like this?
EntityA Members
- EntityA Members
- Sec-EntityA-Staff
EntityA Owners
- Blank
EntityA Visitors
-Blank
If anyone from Sec-Entity-Staff tried to access via the SharePointlink to the Document Library, they get the "Request Access" page. Once they accept, they have access as planned.
