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Brass Contributor

Nov 23, 2021

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Restrict Owners

Not even sure if this is possible, but is there a way to remove site owners permissions from a certain library or even just a folder under a library? We are moving multiple files and departments to ...

Pol_Van_Dingenen
Nov 24, 2021
AOSPWB
There will always need to someone who has enough permissions to help fix things if things go south. The best practice is the use of named admin accounts, this way you can give de admin permissions to the named admin account and not your personal account.
On your personal account you will just see the data that you are allowed to see but on the named admin account you could see everything and help where needed.
The reason you still see the library after removing the owner permissions is because you are set as the site collection administrator which is a higher permission then the owner group.

AOSPWB

Brass Contributor

Nov 24, 2021

Tried that, unfortunately as you can see on your list the "permissions owners" is listed twice. If I go in, stop inheriting permissions and remove user permissions from owners for a library then go back to manager access.... owners is still listed, just listed once. Therefore I am still able to get into the folders as the owner. It also got me thinking... what if something was to go wrong in general in the library? If I had to help fix, how would I do it if I had no access to the folder? Almost like we need to go the way of passwords on files. But i am open to suggestions.

Pol_Van_Dingenen

Brass Contributor

Nov 24, 2021

AOSPWB

There will always need to someone who has enough permissions to help fix things if things go south. The best practice is the use of named admin accounts, this way you can give de admin permissions to the named admin account and not your personal account.

On your personal account you will just see the data that you are allowed to see but on the named admin account you could see everything and help where needed.

The reason you still see the library after removing the owner permissions is because you are set as the site collection administrator which is a higher permission then the owner group.