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Bulk assign SharePoint Folder Permissions
Hi Experts,
I am faced with a challenge where I need too assign different permissions to each of the 500+ sub-folders in a SharePoint folder. This folder contains sub folders for each line manager (folder name is manager name) in my organisation and I only want the named manager to have access to their specific folder and nothing else.
I have seen how these can be achieved manually but wondered if there is another way of doing this in bulk as it is time consuming doing it individually for 500+ files?
Has anyone faced this problem before, how did you get round to it?
Thanks
Hi Ramson1809,
Maybe you could use the PnP PowerShell library to automatically set these permissions for you. Take a look at the Set-PnPFolderPermission command. You could use the -ClearExisting parameter to remove all existing permissions and then the -AddRole parameter to grant permission to the specified manager. Let me know if you need any help with that.
- Thanks for your prompt response Carlos - very helpful. I will take a look at the links you have provided 🙂
