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Group of users cannot see items in the document library

Manage Files With No Checked In Version: Go to Library Settings and click the "Manage files which have no checked in version" link. If users have uploaded files but not checked them in, the users who ...
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If a Child Site breaks inheritance from Parent Site, will Parent site Content Types still be shared and synced with Child libraries or lists?

Permission inheritance, and the breaking of inheritance, is in the realm of user access. A user authenticates herself to the environment, usually Active Directory, which verifies that the user is ...
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Need to delete unique permission at site level only

Please try the following code: #Config Variables $SiteURL = "https://domain.sharepoint.com/sites/sitename" #Get Credentials to connect $Cred = Get-Credential Try { #Connect to PnP Online ...
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Common Promoted Links

OOTB not possible. To generally describe, your requirement would be to show list items from a parent site in the way the built-in Promoted Links do display. Because we can only query list items from ...
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If a Child Site breaks inheritance from Parent Site, will Parent site Content Types still be shared and synced with Child libraries or lists?

Yes, breaking inheritance does not affect the content type or site columns which are created in parent site... Content type connection will retain between parent and child. Hope this helps...!!! ...
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How to restore inheritance of just the role definitions ("permission levels")?

It is tricky, and I think there is no straight forward way to retain the unique permissions when you roll back to inherit parent's permissions. If you read and compare the definitions of SPWeb....
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How to restore inheritance of just the role definitions ("permission levels")?

Reseting role definitions could possibly lead to an inconsistency if new definitions have been added and used in assignments. That's why, I presume, you canno't revert définitions without also ...
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Permissions deleted in broken inheritance

Users need to have access to the site. That's why there is a permission level called Limited Access. Looking at the description of the Limited Access permission levels, you’ll see that it allows users ...
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User can access site without permissions

If you stop inheriting permissions, the users with access remain to have access. You need to remove the users that are copied over from the parent. Next to that option, some users have persmissions ...
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Disable inheritance from parent

If I understand your question properly then, If you click Delete Unique permissions, then all the permissions you've set uniquely will be deleted. After breaking the inheritance, if you want to ...
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SP2013 Restore inheritance on document library

If you reestabilish the inheritance, the folder with broken inheritance will keep the broken inheritance. So, it doesn't break unique permissions on children. Anyway, you can try it yourself simply ...
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SharePoint Security/Permission Issue - Broken Inheritance

Since you're the one that created the library and are able to adjust the permissions in the first place, are you and your team site collection owners? If so, that would supersede other permission ...
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Create Subfolder WIthout Inheriting Permissions in PowerShell

When you use BreakRoleInheritance with $true or $false you do the following : you are assigning the folder with unique permissions. Any new permissions added to the item are only applied to the item. ...
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Providing User Access only to folders of document library without providing access to site or document library

The user will need at a minimum read permissions to the library. If they go into the library, they will only see the folder they have permissions to. If you want them to be able to edit files, then ...
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Mixed inherited and unique permissions on sub-sites

Your setup looks correct and should behave like you are imagining. It has been our experience that using AD groups sourced from on premises AD can take upwards of 72 hours for the permissions to ...
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Creating content types for non-Office files

The "Unknown Document Type" content type is used when doing automatic document parsing to allow documents that have a content type that is not necessarily already associated with a library to be moved ...
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SharePoint 365 permissions

Click on ... next to the folder. In the List Item menu, click on ... again. Click on Shared With. Click on Advanced Click on Stop Inheriting Permissions Edit the permissions as wanted. Additional tip:...
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Sharepoint 2010: How to give someone access permissions to a list, including all its elements with unique permissions?

If you have broken the inheritance on folders and sub folders then there is no automatic way to give the permissions on list, items, folders and sub folders at a time. You can create a group and give ...
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stop inherit and add permission level is missing on subsite

Permission Levels are defined at the Site Collection level. Permission Levels are shared across all sites in the Site Collection. In an older version, maybe SP 2007, you could edit the Permission ...
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SharePoint 365 permissions

Stop inheriting the permissions after stopping you can delete the user and groups and you can give permissions to users to specific folder or files however you want
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PowerShell - Unique permissions vs Parent Folder Permissions

Thanks to @DubStep's answer which led me to the answer, I've remembered about SPItem.File.ParentFolder. I've found out we can get the permissions like an SPItem usingSPFolder.Item.RoleAssignments. I ...
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PowerShell - Unique permissions vs Parent Folder Permissions

I assume you are talking about rootweb here? You could write a loop on the web application to get all sites collection, then get rootweb for each site collection and then do stuff, where stuff would ...
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SharePoint site and list "stop Inheriting permission" button is inactive

If you are a site collection admin and "Stop Inheriting Permissions" is disabled then its not a SharePoint permission issue. It could be A web browser issue. Try different browser. Try deleting the ...
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How to inherit metadata from two hierarchy levels?

No: Using OOTB Sharepoint you cannot create lookups to other (sub)sites.
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how to create a content type and have a multi parent content type

This is not possible Content type can only have 1 parent. What you could do is to have ContentType3 (CT3) inheriting from CT2 and CT2 Inherit from CT1. This way CT3 will inherit both CT2 and CT1 ...
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Control access to a sub-site

The 'View Items' permission lets the other users to access the subsite, try un-checking this permission. As default, users are given permission level 'Limited Access'. Somehow, these listed ...
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Missing 'Stop Inheriting Permissions' Button

You have independant permissions on that library. It will only be available if the library is actually inheriting permissions.
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SharePoint Security/Permission Issue - Broken Inheritance

There is no web application level settings in SharePoint Online. All site collections run inside a single web application to which you have no config access. More likely that when stopping ...
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Disable inheritance, next add group in root site

Because inheritance is disabled, meaning it will not inherit permission changes in the parent. Permissions are either inherited from the parent or broken. If inherited, any changes you make to the ...
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