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Securing Wiki
I want to secure a wiki. I have changed the access privileges in SharePoint to Read Only for Team members but they are still able to edit the wiki. The weird thing is that if I open Sharepoint then the latest Modified Date and User is not in line with what happened on Teams. I am clearly missing something. Any ideas?
Illuminate Hello! Thanks for the update, that's handy to know! (never tried it as I mentioned).
How about using OneNote within Teams instead? It's a much better overall experience comparing to the Wiki and you can secure it with password-protected sections (but not entire notebooks) using encryption. To add to that you have the sharing/permissions options as well.
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Illuminate unfortunately you can't lock teams built-in wiki from being edited, but there is a lot of 3-rd party wiki apps available for the Ms Teams. Here is an overview of https://perfectwikiforteams.com/blog/best-wiki-apps-for-ms-teams-2021/
Illuminate Hello! Never done it but you should be able to do it. Try this.
Open the SharePoint view.
It most likely is inheriting permissions. Stop that and set grant/edit desired permissions.
ChristianBergstrom thanks, This is the first thing I tried and members are still able to change the Wiki. I asked the same question during Colab365 recently and the general consensus was securing a wiki goes against the principles of a wiki, sharing i.e. if you feel that you need to secure information in a wiki it is probably the wrong tool to use. While I agree with the sentiment I am a bit baffled by the fact that I can set access permission but it does not have any impact
Illuminate Hello! Thanks for the update, that's handy to know! (never tried it as I mentioned).
How about using OneNote within Teams instead? It's a much better overall experience comparing to the Wiki and you can secure it with password-protected sections (but not entire notebooks) using encryption. To add to that you have the sharing/permissions options as well.
Hello Illuminate I can't answer your question directly but I can offer you this article on Security in Teams in general - perhaps there's something there that will help. Otherwise we'll just have to see if the community members have other suggestions.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/security-compliance-overview
