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How to change one file permissions
Hi
We have Office 365 -group Sharepoint Online site (customer.sharepoint.com/sites/groupsitename) and there is a bunch of files at the Documents folder.
There is few files that I would need to set so that only few people has modification permissions for these files. All the members of the Group has modification persmission to all files at the moment.
How can change the permission for these few files so that not all have modification permission to the files and the for the Group members has only view permission for these files?
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Hi Juan, if I understand well what he means, Iivo Kerminen has a Group-connected team site with a document library and he would like to configure some Members of the Group with read-only permission and some with read-write permission.
AFAIK this is not possible (and anyway not recommended).
Am I wrong?
- Totally possible...but if the question is: is it advisable? Maybe not :-).
Salvatore Biscari to a degree yes. Connected group sites Members can be restricted from documents and items etc. on the connected SharePoint site, but owners cannot. Reason being, owners are site collection admins, but members are nothing but a group user added to the Members SharePoint group on the site.
So basically you can remove (stop inheriting) permissions for a list/library/item etc. and add customize the permissions there. If you don't want Office 365 Group members to see the content you remove the Members SharePoint group and then add the individual users (or create a new SharePoint group with the users), and at that point only those users and the Group "Owners" can access that content.
- The Group site is a SPO site so you can still do the same you can do in any other SPO site: configure security at different scopes: document library, list, document, list item
- I really hope they move to that model for other products "Planner, Teams etc." makes it so nice when you need, would support guests for just individual products tied to a group etc. help with Private channels. Sorry to off topic your post, but reading this just brings that to mind, I really hate how the Group model works sometimes. Makes sense for Internal Teams, but introducing guests throws that around.
