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na0719
Copper Contributor
Aug 22, 2019

SharePoint permissions for intranet site

Hi, I was wondering if someone could help me decide what is the best way of implementing SharePoint permissions for the site I am working on. I am using SharePoint classic on Office365. It is an int...
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Veronique Lengelle's avatar
Veronique Lengelle
MVP
Aug 22, 2019

na0719 

Stay away (as much as possible) from assigning individual permissions. If you have 1 or 2 users that "might" be OK, but still.

And seeing that you will also break permissions inheritance on one or more libraries, this can/will get messy pretty quickly...

 

Why are you using a classic site? Can you not use a Communication site & hubsites?

 

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  • TazIT's avatar
    TazIT
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 14, 2022
    Do you have an obvious way of giving specific users "add" permissions to the newsfeed in SharePoint Intranet without giving them the ability to add/edit web pages? I've managed to get close but the users receive errors when trying to add news. The error message reads "Changes not saved: We're sorry, we encountered an unexpected error. Please refresh the page and try again."
    • ganeshsanap's avatar
      ganeshsanap
      MVP
      Sep 15, 2022

      TazIT News pages in SharePoint are normal site pages only with some flags (promoted state) set to some specific value.

       

      So, if you want to grant access to create news pages in site, you are granting access to create/edit site pages in SharePoint site. You cannot differentiate the permissions using SharePoint out of the box features.

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  • na0719's avatar
    na0719
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 23, 2019

    Veronique Lengelle I've recently migrated our existing intranet from SharePoint 2010 to Office365. I am yet to understand why I should choose Modern site over classic. Apart from the benefit of viewing the site in mobile view, it seems to lack flexibility, and features that were otherwise available in the classic version are not available anymore. I would like to use announcements web part, have more than 3 levels of menu items in the mega menu, attach images inline with text, and many others, which are not currently available on modern sites.

     

    I will go ahead with my approach in terms of permissions then, and see how that works out. Thank you.

     

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