Questions tagged [sharepoint-permissions]
Permissions control access to sites and site content. You can manage permissions by using SharePoint groups, which control membership. Fine-grained permissions also help to secure content at the item and document level.
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How to count documents inheriting permissions on site, library and folder level by powershell?
How to count the documents inheriting from a specific level like the site, document library or folder by powershell?
For example, I have a site with 100 documents total seperated over multiple ...
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How to publish new custom form to all users of site in SharePoint designer 2019
The custom form I'm using in SharePoint Designer 2019 is currently only accessible to administrators, as it shows an "Access Denied" error to regular users. In designer, the custom forms ...
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Allowing external application permission to use Sharepoint search REST API?
How do you allow an external application to use the search REST API? This is for Sharepoint online, not self hosted. Both SP and the external app use the same Azure AD/MS Graph to login. So the users ...
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Permissions On a Event Webpart And Announcements Web Part
I have been tasked with setting permissions for a SharePoint user to be able to edit the Event web part only and then another user edits the announcement web part Only. Can you set permissions on the ...
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How to add AZ Application Client ID to Sharepoint Site collection Owners group
I am in need of some critical automation for SharePoint Online and even though i'm able to perform all tasks, i'm restricted from using the App ID to "share a link" for a file in a Document ...
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SharePoint Online: Access Denied for Site owner with full control
In a SharePoint online site, site owner with full control on the site is getting Access denied error when tried to access site permissions settings or click on page permissions though they have ...
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Group being added to parent site automatically
This has been happening for a while on our SharePoint Online Site. These are the steps to recreate:
I have a document library that is no longer inheriting permission from the parent site.
I give ...
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SharePoint User Profiles service account
I want to create a new service account that is only permitted to edit all user profiles - specifically anyone's manager field and their photo.
Can you advise how I might grant those and only those ...
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How to provide access to Distribution List in SharePoint modern site
There is a distribution list in an organization. In general this is used to send email to large group of staffs. Now I have requirement to provide access to this DL in SharePoint Modern site.
I tried ...
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Grant SP group manage permissions, but not be able to grant Full control
I'd like to have a specific SharePoint group with the ability to manage permissions on a site, but only be able to grant edit and read. Can this be done?
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"Everyone except external users" - no results found
Until recently, I was able to grant access to all authenticated users in my tenant through the Everyone except external users role. This morning, I get a No results found message.
Anything changed ...
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Does external sharing (link and/or direct sharing) with M365 users (external) result in user creation in AD as guest user?
Link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/what-s-new-in-sharing-in-targeted-release
Recipients of secure external sharing who also use Microsoft 365 in
their organization can sign in using ...
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User visualize others folders with permission edit and limited acess
I am new to SharePoint, and I want to restrict a user A to his own folder only, enabling to send files, delete and update.
Today the user A sees folder B, C and so on, they are seeing each other users ...
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Site setting page not showing any Option with edit permission
Site setting page not showing any option with edit permissions.
Please find attached screenshot.
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block visitors with read only access to reach site contents via "settings" Icon
I am giving access to guest users to my SharePoint online communication site, but I see that they can reach (even on read only permission level) the site contents via settings button on the top of the ...
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External Guest receives individual Deny permissions as an owner with Full Control
We have a set of guest users (all from the same tenant) that are receiving individual Deny permissions that add up to denying everything on the site - they essentially keep getting circled back to the ...
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SharePoint folder permissions - prevent moving folders
we have a problem with folders that are moved by users unintenditly and lead to changes in our rolled out folder structure.
Currently we have more than 200 Site Collections with each 10 libraries and ...
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Can a SharePoint Administrator see all sites within a tenant?
I'm new to SharePoint online!
In SharePoint on-premises a SharePoint Administrator could see all sites in a tenant*. In SharePoint online, Microsoft documentation states that "Global ...
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Using an AAD User, instead of client secret, with Microsoft Graph API in a headless program
I am developing a small program that creates sites, files, folders, and registers Subscriptions on the root of site. I am using an App in Azure Portal that has Sites.WriteRead.All and Files.WriteRead....
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Preventing 'members' from changing content approval setting
We use a controlled documents system with flows that's an integral part of our business processes and ISO compliances.
We've struck upon a situation where group members (specifically O365 Group ...
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Access denied for members
User A is member of a Teams based SharePoint. Therefor he should have access to all files on the SharePoint. Permissions to files folder also contain the members group with editing rights. But User A ...
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SharePoint Site Permissions
I have a Leave Request App that I have built, I want for all employees to use the Leave Request App, so I built a Power Apps Security Group in the portal and added every employee, easy.
My issue is a ...
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Graph API to search document from a specific SharePoint site
I need to use Graph API to search for a document in a specific SharePoint Online site and folder, by its unique document ID (the SharePoint site as Document ID enabled). I was able to achieve this ...
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Site Sharing, List to show users only their created by items however show list items to all employees under that manager
I have a leave calendar list which users can only see their created by list items, however I need for the department managers to be able to see the employees in their departments leave items in that ...
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Deploying a Teams tab (personal app) using SPFx without full tenant admin privileges
I'm trying to deploy some Teams tab samples (teams-tab-spfx-client) so I could add webparts my team made as a personal app or group tabs. I was able to run this sample on the site's workbench and ...
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Restrict can edit for the read SP group
I would like to disable or grey out the "can edit" for the specific people in sharing options or read permission users. As this is creating confusing in files and folders.
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How to setup permission group, to delete content created by that user only, but able to modify other users content
I am working on requirement that requires new permission group to be setup in such a way:
Members of that group should be able to delete only self created
data
Members of that group should be able to ...
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Allow users to upload the same document to multiple folders
We have a sharepoint site with multiple external organisations who each have access to one folder only. On some occasions, our users will want to share the same document with all organisations. Is ...
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Random elusive and sudden redirects to AccessDenied.aspx
A strange bug annoys some of our users. If the browser opened any page of any lib of any SPWeb and keeps it open for some time (10+ minutes) sometimes it redirects the user to AccessDenied.aspx page ...
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How do I create Upload only permission in SharePoint 2019 no edit?
Hello i hope you can help me with this question.
I don´t want a specific group of users to edit. But they should be allowed to upload their documents.
Here is my permission so far.
But when I´m ...
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Issue with uploading document to sharepoint libary
Was wondering if you guys have seen this error message before? We have an end user with a document that is trying to upload to a SharePoint site and get this error in the attached image. Any thoughts? ...
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Permissions to run Custom audit log report on SharePoint 2016
My client has an on-prem Sharepoint 2016 and wants to run their own audit log report - they want to see who accessed a certain folder within a certain period. As normal user, they to not see the ...
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Locate SharePoint user across tenant to remove
I currently have an end user that is a power user across my sharepoint online tenant. I do not have the access to PowerShell or ShareGate to run permission reports to locate and remove all instances ...
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What permissions for using only Sharepoint SOAP Calls to read/write to a list and upload attachments?
I'm developing a web form, that writes data to a SharePoint online list using this library, reads the entry and uploads attachments. Right now, for testing, I use the login data to my Office 365 ...
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How to share link and allow access requests for a group?
I am making a SharePoint team site for my company department in SharePoint Online. The department consists of 5 units, each of which have been given a document library to use freely and only by that ...
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How can you add custom permissions to the standard permissions tab?
How can you add custom permissions in the "Site Permissions" tab just like the standard three in the image below?
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Sharepoint online search not returning results
I have written a simple SPFX webpart where I am trying to show content from a SharePoint list using search REST api.
I am using a custom permission level for some of the users, where they don't have &...
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Limiting User View to Only Specific Lists/Document Libraries
We recently have migrated from an on-prem file share to SPO having used SPMT. Having kept file share permissions and enabled Azure AD lookup, everything migrated well but due to the fact that lots of ...
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How do I make my Word document read-only in a SharePoint library when I'm not an owner of that library?
Generally, owners and members of a SharePoint group seem to be able to edit all documents in the SharePoint group's document library.
Is there a way to make a specific document in that library (here, ...
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SharePoint Online - External Sharing failed: Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object
The Goal
Share one specific folder in a SharePoint site with an external user (outside of tenant organization) and include Edit permissions without the user needing a Microsoft account.
My ...
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Users with the Cancel Checkout permission can read and edit all items
When we create a custom list >> and we access the custom list settings >> we get this message inside the Item-Level permission:-
so what is this permission level exactly ? is it this one?
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Security and Mail-Enabled Security Groups in SharePoint
I've done my best to Google this one and am hitting a wall. Our Org has widely used Mail-Enabled Security and Security groups via O365 to apply permissions to our SharePoint Online instance. The ...
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SharePoint Online - Is there a 'Global Administrator' Group?
In both "SharePoint Site Settings" and "SharePoint Admin Center", I can assign permissions to 'Global Administrator'.
Is this a built-in Office 365 group? I can't find any ...
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SharePoint List setting doesn't have 'email alert' option
I have created an Issues tracking list on a SharePoint collaboration site and when I assign a name under Assign To, the person doesn't receive any notification. While checking under the Advanced ...
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Access Denied for all sites collections in same content DB while other content DB`s Sites are ok
Env: SharePoint 2016 on-prem
I have 3 content database under 1 Web Application.
there is 1 content database (have 6 site collections) suddenly became "Access Denied" including sites ...
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Which permission required to copy the file on SharePoint server?
On SharePoint server, I am trying to copy a file with Shared drive's folder through C# code. But its not get working shows in the logs 'Access denied'. The user credentials I used in code has Read/...
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Disable "Send an email notification invitation" when sharing a SharePoint site with external parties with Microsoft account
I am trying to "uncheck" the "Send an email invitation" checkbox that is ticked by default while you try to grant access to something on SharePoint.
50% of the email addresses, I ...
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Move SharePoint list from one tenant to another tenant
I am trying to move my SharePoint list from one tenant to another. In the SharePoint list settings, I couldn't find the option of "Save list as template".
Although I have full control of the ...
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How long does it take for SharePoint Online permission changes to propagate?
I had, I thought, removed a user from an MS 365 group that is a member of a SharePoint group on a SharePoint Online site, but they still appear to be in the group when doing Check Permissions. How ...
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User with FULL CONTROL Unable to Access List Settings
I'm trying to be able to access the settings for a sharepoint list. I believe I literally have all the permissions I could possibly get (full control at the top most level of the site), but the list ...
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