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Users in security group not receiving the same permissions
Hi experts,
I have a SharePoint Online site with 4 lists. Each list has its own permissions as I broke the inheritance. All lists are set so users can see/edit their own records only. Now I have a list which a group of people needs to see all records. So I created an AD Security Group, added everyone in and provided Design permissions for that particular group on the list. Here's where things get weird. When checking permissions for an user, 95% of the users get Design as they should (plus Edit as default), however three users, although they are in the security group (I triple checked), only get Edit and not the Design. Tried removing and adding them again, same behaviour. I'm clueless.
What am I doing wrong, please?
TIA
- I haven't seen that before. If that security group worked for everyone else, this is what I would do: Remove them from the security group. Then browse to any SharePoint group. The end of the URL should look something like this: /_layouts/15/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=5. Change the group to 0, so it looks like /_layouts/15/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=0. Find and delete the users. This will completely remove them from the site collection, and they should get access denied. Then re-add them to the security group.
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- I haven't seen that before. If that security group worked for everyone else, this is what I would do: Remove them from the security group. Then browse to any SharePoint group. The end of the URL should look something like this: /_layouts/15/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=5. Change the group to 0, so it looks like /_layouts/15/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=0. Find and delete the users. This will completely remove them from the site collection, and they should get access denied. Then re-add them to the security group.
- Awesome reply, thank you. For some reason, today the permissions appeared for those three users too, so there was a delay in applying the permissions, don't understand why it worked for 16 users and not for the other 3. Saying that, I did follow your suggestion just to see how it looks and I am 99.99% certain I will be using your advice at some point in the future, thank you!
