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Re: Replacing Dropbox with Sharepoint. Looking for guidance.
What you'd be wanting to do is to look at Office 365 Groups to be set up for each of the different teams/departments. That will allow you to apply group-level permissions.
Also with the latest OneDrive for Business sync client users can sync the files and shared locations they have access to, onto their local computer or mobile device.
Groups is a good way to start if you don't have much experience with SharePoint.https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Learn-about-Office-365-groups-b565caa1-5c40-40ef-9915-60fdb2d97fa2
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- Unless something has changed, I thought that anyone that was a member of the group has "admin" permissions on the files in a group?
I know this stuff is moving fast these days.. Is this not the case?- No, members of the Group will have contributor rights effectively - however to the contents that is realistically the ability to do whatever they want, just not change permissions.
But because it is a document library you can go more granular on the permissions, workflows, publishing permissions, etc.- You can absolutely mirror this dropbox structure to a SharePoint one where each dropbox folder could be a site and each site will be managed by a department since you are working with departments.... you can do the same with a Group and subsites, but I would not use a Group for each department since a Group itself is an independent information container
