Forum Discussion

mangelucci's avatar
mangelucci
Copper Contributor
Jul 21, 2020
Solved

Contributors permissions granted, Access to subfolder in SP site blocked

Hi,   I did some research before posting but I didn't find a solution.   Our CTO created a site in Sharepoint which contains sensitive information. He now wants to share a specific documents sub...
admin
Document Library
files
Sites
  • mangelucci's avatar
    mangelucci
    Jul 21, 2020

    Andrew Hodges all sorted, I figured it out! It wasn't a matter of being an owner, I needed to be an Admin of the site, which comes with extra permissions 🙂

     

    For those who come here with the same issue: I was made an Owner by my CTO, but not an Admin of that site via the Sharepoint admin centre.

     

    What I had to do was logging into admin.microsoft.com, open the Sharepoint Admin Centre from the left pane, select "Sites" and then "Active Sites", find the relevant site and add myself as Admin/Primary Admin.

     

    At that point, I was then able to see the Site Collection settings mentioned in the link below to disable the "Limited Access feature" https://docs.microsoft.com/en-za/sharepoint/troubleshoot/sharing-and-permissions/cannot-access-share...

     

    As soon as I disabled that feature, my colleague was able to access the folder 🙂

Andrew Hodges's avatar
Andrew Hodges
Bronze Contributor
Jul 21, 2020

mangelucci 

 

If you are not a site collection owner you wont see the site collection feature, even though you are a Global Admin. A Global Admin has no rights over SharePoint sites unless you are added as a Site collection admin or an owner.

 

Add yourself into the site collection Admins for that site in the SharePoint admin centre.

mangelucci's avatar
mangelucci
Copper Contributor
Jul 21, 2020

Andrew Hodges all sorted, I figured it out! It wasn't a matter of being an owner, I needed to be an Admin of the site, which comes with extra permissions 🙂

 

For those who come here with the same issue: I was made an Owner by my CTO, but not an Admin of that site via the Sharepoint admin centre.

 

What I had to do was logging into admin.microsoft.com, open the Sharepoint Admin Centre from the left pane, select "Sites" and then "Active Sites", find the relevant site and add myself as Admin/Primary Admin.

 

At that point, I was then able to see the Site Collection settings mentioned in the link below to disable the "Limited Access feature" https://docs.microsoft.com/en-za/sharepoint/troubleshoot/sharing-and-permissions/cannot-access-share...

 

As soon as I disabled that feature, my colleague was able to access the folder 🙂

Resources