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SharePoint permissions and inheritance make no sense
An_admin_123 Go to parent SharePoint site permissions page using URL like:
https://contoso.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/user.aspx
Check if any of the group from subsite is having access to your parent SharePoint site. If yes, you have to remove their permissions (individual user accounts as well as SharePoint/Azure AD/M365 groups where users are added as members) from parent site.
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- An_admin_123Apr 25, 2023Copper ContributorI'm confused. If I remove their permissions from the parent they disappear from the subsite too. It's like I can't have one without the other.
- ganeshsanapApr 25, 2023MVP
An_admin_123 Are you sure you are using unique permissions / groups for your subsite? I think you are using same groups for granting permissions on site collection as well as subsites. It is better to use separate groups for granting permissions on site collection & subsites.
There is a option to use unique permissions and groups for subsite instead of inheriting it from parent site (site collection). Go to sub site permissions page using URL like:
https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/siteName/subsiteName/_layouts/15/user.aspx
Then select Stop Inheriting Permissions option like:
Click OK button from alert popup and it will ask you to create set up new groups for your site. You can use Create a new group option against all three group options visitors/members/owners. SharePoint will create 3 new groups specific to your subsite.
Then you can remove permissions for older site collection groups from subsite and use these new groups specific to subsite for granting permissions on subsite.
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