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SharePoint Permissions Simplified
Trying to understand how SharePoint permissions work sometimes feels like trying to understand how Facebook privacy settings work. You think you get it and then it turns out your wife has access to all the photos of you having way too much fun at your friend’s bachelor party. 🙂 So with this post, I would like to explain how SharePoint permissions work.… keep reading >
How to stop site and file sharing in SharePoint and OneDrive
Say, you shared a site, file or a folder with someone in your organization or externally. Maybe you shared from SharePoint or your own OneDrive. And now you want to “unshare” for security and best practices reasons. How do you stop site and file sharing? With this post, I would like to explain the techniques. Steps differ depending on whether you shared… keep reading >
How to grant all employees access to a SharePoint site via Everyone except external users Group
As you create SharePoint sites in your Intranet, I am sure you have a need to make the site available to everyone in your organization. An example could be an HR Employee Site or an Intranet Homepage site – these sites would typically be visible and should be visible and accessible to everyone in your organization. How do you go about adding… keep reading >
Who should you make a SharePoint Site Owner?
OK, this post is not “technical” like most of the other ones on my site. Instead, it is philosophical. I get this question a lot. You set up your SharePoint Site or Office 365 Group, add members to the members group, but who should be in the Site Owners one? An important part of SharePoint Governance is to assure that all SharePoint sites are… keep reading >
How to prevent team site members from editing SharePoint pages
In this post, I am going to describe how to get around a pretty damaging issue in SharePoint Sites. It is the ability of regular members of the site to edit pages, including the homepage of the site. In SharePoint, pages are treated just like any other content (documents, events, etc.). This means that if the users have Edit or Contribute permission level (those… keep reading >
6 locations where you can set security for files in SharePoint and Office 365
One of the most frequent concerns/questions users have about security in SharePoint, is whether or not the files you store in Office 365 ecosystem are safe and secure and can’t accidentally be accessed by curious colleagues or discovered by accident by those who do not need to see them. Security, in my opinion, is one of the core strengths of SharePoint (if… keep reading >
How to access someone else’s OneDrive account
Here is a scenario. Your employee left or is about to leave the organization, but has left lots of valuable intellectual property in his or her OneDrive repository. Or, maybe someone just left on vacation and forgot to publish a very important Sales Proposal to SharePoint. The bottom line is – you need to access someone else’s OneDrive. With this post, I… keep reading >
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