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Create a Public Group where members have Read (not Edit) Permissions?
I work at a large University and a number of our academic departments have asked about creating Groups for their students (e.g.: Psychology Students or Biology Students). In an ideal world, we'd be a...
Generally speaking, the advice is not to change SharePoint permissions for group-enabled team sites because you never know what you might do that will interfere with something in the future. Another way of saying this is that people who change SharePoint permissions without knowing exactly what they are doing create the potential for mistakes...
But some SharePoint experts are quite happy to make changes (for example, see https://www.techmikael.com/2017/12/better-security-defaults-for-office-365.html). If you're happy to take the risk, test to make sure that you know what happens, and document everything so that people will understand exactly what was done, then you can go ahead... and test.
