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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...

Office 365 Groups

SharePoint

jcgonzalezmartin

MVP

I'm with you in this perception....also trying to look for workarounds seems not be the right thing to do. But I'm still missing what are the plans of Microsoft in regards of what can be done and can't be done when defining the security to access to a modern team site or a Group site

Damien Flood

Iron Contributor

Feb 24, 2017

Also discovered the same...might be the fact that that default permission of "edit" for members may tie in closley with the other services so changing it might cause implications.

I hope they address this soon as it will become difficult to manage.

Another question, is it possible to turn external sharing on or off for individual site collections which were created as part of a group? Since the collection does not appear in the SP admin site collections possible via Powershell maybe?

Cheers

Brent Ellis
Silver Contributor
Feb 24, 2017
Damian, check this thread out of you haven't already. Good explanation of roadmap and contribute permissions in Groups. Pls they just have ability to change group membership a different way. And groups now included in PowerShell to get sites

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint/UPDATE-Create-Office-365-Groups-with-team-sites-from-SharePoint/m-p/48476#M4637
Damien Flood
Iron Contributor
Feb 24, 2017
Thanks!
Salvatore Biscari
Silver Contributor
Feb 24, 2017
Damien Flood wrote:
Another question, is it possible to turn external sharing on or off for individual site collections which were created as part of a group? Since the collection does not appear in the SP admin site collections possible via Powershell maybe?
Yes, it is.
See "Manage external sharing for Office 365 Group site collections" in https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Manage-external-sharing-for-your-SharePoint-Online-environment-c8a462eb-0723-4b0b-8d0a-70feafe4be85?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US