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Brent Ellis's avatar
Brent Ellis
Silver Contributor
Nov 16, 2016

Best Practices for Permissions on an O365 Group SharePoint Site

So it seems that you can break permissions of individual lists/libraries/items, but you can't actually set permissions on the site as a whole?  Am I missing something when looking at configuring gene...
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Ivan54
Bronze Contributor
Dec 06, 2016

at the moment I'm leaning towards not touching groups team sites permissions. My main concern is user experience. Even though you could assign permission to nonmember of this group, the end user would not see the group in the left navigation compared to when he/she is a direct member in that group.  

Also I've seen a new Site Permissions UI (right side pane) coming up, amd rumors about a view only permission set. 

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    Damien Flood
    Iron Contributor
    Feb 03, 2017

    Hi all,

     

    Is it correct that when creating a group the default permissions for members is "Edit" and not "Contribute" correct?

     

    Is it possible to change(e.g. to contribute) this when provisioning? Is it wrong to think that the default permissions for members is a bit much? I mean they have the potential to mess up things just because they can.

     

    Cheers

    • Brent Ellis's avatar
      Brent Ellis
      Silver Contributor
      Feb 03, 2017
      That is accurate. And I whole-heartedly agree with bumping it down to contribute. We do that manually right now.
      • Damien Flood's avatar
        Damien Flood
        Iron Contributor
        Feb 06, 2017

        Hi Brent Ellis, When you say manually do you mean you set the default when you provision the Group e.g. via powershell? Would love to know :)

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