3 votes
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Specific custom made SharePoint permissions to read only and save as a copy online

Unfortunately, Save as - Save a copy online option is available only if you have Edit permissions on the files (default behavior in SharePoint). Workaround: If you want to allow users to create a ...
Ganesh Sanap - MVP's user avatar
2 votes
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Can we allow users to rename files but prevent them from deleting those files inside SharePoint online

Unfortunately, this is a default behavior in SharePoint. You need Delete permissions on items/files if you want to rename those. This behavior corresponds to user's experience on Windows file servers ...
Ganesh Sanap - MVP's user avatar
2 votes
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Break role inheritance for a specific folder

You have to use the Set-PnPFolderPermission PnP PowerShell command instead of Set-PnPListItemPermission. Example: Set-PnPFolderPermission -List 'Shared Documents' -Identity 'Shared Documents/Folder' -...
Ganesh Sanap - MVP's user avatar
2 votes

Can a SharePoint Administrator see all sites within a tenant?

Global Administrators and SharePoint Tenant Administrators can see all the sites (site collections) from the SharePoint admin center. You can directly access this page to see all sites in your ...
Ganesh Sanap - MVP's user avatar
1 vote

Bulk sending files on SharePoint Online + prevent from downloading

You are correct, currently there are no SharePoint out of the box solutions available for selecting more than one file and share those with other users. Check below suggestions: If you want to share ...
Ganesh Sanap - MVP's user avatar
1 vote

Deleted permissions for owners on Sharepoint site

Yes, it is possible to grant you the owner access on SharePoint site or document library using the Site Collection Administrator (SCA) account. User the Site Collection Administrator (SCA) access on ...
Ganesh Sanap - MVP's user avatar
1 vote
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Removing user from viewing a folder who has access from another Group

If "Project Manager" group has access to "YouHaveNoAccess" folder, you cannot exclude particular group member (John) from this folder. You will have to remove "Project Manager&...
Ganesh Sanap - MVP's user avatar
1 vote
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Can a SharePoint Administrator see all sites within a tenant?

No, Admins by default do not have access inside the sites themselves, and there's no easy button to grant it to all sites. Typically in the wild an admins group would be granted access through a site ...
Derek Gusoff's user avatar
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1 vote
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Which users have access to the additional items that come with the team site?

When you create a SharePoint team site connected with M365 group, it creates a M365 group in your tenant. M365 group owners and members will have access to related resources like mailbox, planner, etc....
Ganesh Sanap - MVP's user avatar
1 vote
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What is the use case of subsites in SharePoint online?

Previously, Sub sites were used in SharePoint server (on-premises) versions when hub site concept was not introduced by Microsoft. Subsites were used for grouping multiple related "sub sites"...
Ganesh Sanap - MVP's user avatar
1 vote
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Where is site collection administrator option in communication site?

"Site Collection Administrators" option in advanced SharePoint site permissions will be shown only if you are already a Site Collection Administrator (SCA) for that particular site. New site ...
Ganesh Sanap - MVP's user avatar
1 vote
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Where is the member and owner group membership held in the O365 group that's created for SharePoint teams site?

When you add any users from add members option from SharePoint site (as shown in below image), those users will be added to associated M365 group owners/members and not in SharePoint groups (owners/...
Ganesh Sanap - MVP's user avatar
1 vote

How to check user permissions to SharePoint folders (with inheritence indicator)?

you can use this script SharePointDiary.com which reports all unique permissions from Site to Item Level (you can adjust with commenting the line 151 Get-SPOListItemsPermission $List if you do not ...
Zdeněk Vinduška's user avatar
1 vote
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User getting error when opening SharePoint customized Power Apps form

Office 365 Users connector methods/actions are limited for the guest accounts in the M365 tenant. Get my profile (V2) action may fail with 401 Unauthorized error when used by guest users. To ...
Ganesh Sanap - MVP's user avatar
1 vote
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Do teams connected SharePoint sites not support direct access/advanced permission management?

It's possible to manage SharePoint site permissions separately from the Microsoft 365 group by using SharePoint groups (advanced permissions settings). If you want users to have access to related ...
Ganesh Sanap - MVP's user avatar
1 vote
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What is the difference between the members on home page vs members in the site permissions?

I think you are using SharePoint online team site connected with Microsoft 365 groups. The groups you see directly from site home page are M365 groups. And the groups you see under site permissions ...
Ganesh Sanap - MVP's user avatar
1 vote

Using Sites.Selected with library / list / folder / item scoped permissions

At this point in time, the most granular permission scope for SharePoint in Entra ID (Azure AD) is the site collection. There are more granular permission scopes (e.g. site, list, and library) ...
Rob Windsor's user avatar
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'Copy Link' and 'Share' create unique permission automatically

I don't think you will be able to change the SharePoint default functionality of "Copy link" option in the document library. If you want a direct link to SharePoint file to share with users ...
Ganesh Sanap - MVP's user avatar
1 vote
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How to assign a Group to a specific folder in a Document Library via Manage Access

Try this: Go to "Groups" page in your SharePoint site using the URL in below format: https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/MySite/_layouts/15/groups.aspx Click New to create a new group: ...
Ganesh Sanap - MVP's user avatar
1 vote

File sharing via link share or direct access or grant - breaks inheritance

Can you check this link and see if it applies to your issue? https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/broken-permission-inheritance-when-sharing-content/26a402c6-2c27-44af-9ed3-...
Martin Iszac's user avatar
1 vote

Does creating a child flow that is called from an automated flow create a security hole inside our tenant

If the child flow ("SetPermion") is not shared with any other account in your tenant, they cannot use it in their own flows. Make sure the "SetPermion" flow is only shared with ...
Ganesh Sanap - MVP's user avatar
1 vote
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Can we allow a user with Create Only permission (without Edit or Delete) to submit a list item and attach files

This is a known behavior in SharePoint sites. Adding attachments to the list items is considered as edit/update operation because when you will click save button, SharePoint will first create a list ...
Ganesh Sanap - MVP's user avatar
1 vote
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User with page edit permissions does not have New button on site homepage

Try granting either of permissions given below to your SharePoint user account: Grant Edit access to user on SharePoint site pages library. Create a custom level permission by copying SharePoint ...
Ganesh Sanap - MVP's user avatar
1 vote

Power Automate permissions to create item in SharePoint list

As you are using Run-only users permissions for SharePoint connector, all actions with standard SharePoint connector will run with individual user permissions. As users are having read permissions in ...
Ganesh Sanap - MVP's user avatar
1 vote
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Share with Anyone option is disabled

Make sure that in SharePoint Admin Center below settings are enabled: Enable Anonymous sharing globally using below settings Enable Same setting for your site as well
Kalpesh Vaghela's user avatar
1 vote
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Can we break the permission inheritance for a SharePoint custom list item + get all the permission assignments, using GraphAPI instead SharePointAPI

Unfortunately, this is not yet possible using Microsoft Graph APIs. Microsoft graph APIs does not these operations yet: Breaking Permission inheritance Fetching all Permission assignments Removing ...
Ganesh Sanap - MVP's user avatar
1 vote

Granting permissions to workflows SharePoint 2016 - Your tenant administrator has to approve this app

I'm using On-Premise SharePoint 2019 and got the same error when adding an app. The issue got solved by using Central Administration URL with suffix _layouts/15/appinv.aspx, so in my case this syntax ...
Eastman's user avatar
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