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ROLLING OUT: SharePoint Online team sites + Office 365 Groups & Pages
MicrosoftSharePoint does provide the ability for Site Owners to specify different permissions on resources. Office 365 Groups promises a permission model whereby all group members have access to the group’s resources across workloads (e.g. conversations, files, notebook, etc.). To deliver consistency, SharePoint site collections associated with a Group will also follow this model. So, a group (site) owner can add new permission levels and assign to new users or groups on a resource, but would not be able to remove the permission levels assigned to the group’s owners or members. We are working on delivering a new permissions management UX that will allow for group (site) owners to change the group members’ permission level from Edit to Read-only (and vice versa) but you would not be able to remove the members from resources in the SharePoint site collection.
Having the ability to assign read-only access is a big deal in our case and I believe many others. As much we try to be more inclusive instead of exclusive, everyone having the same access doesn't always sit right. Often we say "teams" but within those teams are different roles, responsiblities and tasks. Sometimes that team isn't always about working together on every part but more about presenting final data/assets/reports/documents/etc to others. That collateral ultimately we want to surface through the teamsite/page itself.
I really think one of the biggest issues some of us struggle with is that Groups give us great tools for the "doing" and "working on it" modes and then teamsites let us finish everything off with the "presentation" piece. The issue is that we don't always want to expose the "working" pieces to everyone. Not everyone needs to see the cake being made in the bakery, or the discussions/disagreements/chaos in the background. Teamsites are like that glass window where the cake is shown. That's the struggle most of us have is that with Groups + Teamsites, now everyone can go into the back room.
- Only from what I understand, permissions for a Group's Site (Team Site) can be set independently from other aspects of the Group? The same is true for Files (Document Library)? There's of course every chance I've misunderstood!
