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View group and user permissions

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View group and user permissions

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- [Voiceover] Let's see how we examine permissions in a SharePoint site. We'll start by going to the gear and choosing site settings. I have a lot of permissions on this site, because I'm the forum administrator. If there's a setting to be had, I have it. If you don't have access to all of these settings, you have fewer permissions, and if you do not have a site permissions link here to click, then you won't be able to view or set the permission settings on this site. The yellow bar at the top provides information about acceptions and about inheritance. It tells us first that some content on this site has different permissions from what you and I see here on these items, and with these groups. It further says that there are limited access users on this site who've been given access to an item or a document. Now it's possible that they also have other access to this site but whenever I share a document directly then I've created a limited access user. And, finally, this website…

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