SharePoint Permissions - Part 2

Yesterday I posted a blog about SharePoint permissions and I realized today there is a really important aspect about creating unique permissions! Look at the following example:

• Contoso 
• Departments
• SharePoint
• Infrastructure
• IT Servicedesk

If you decide to give all department sites unique permissions then you have to remember that if a user does not get permissions to Departments he or she won't be able to access the site! The user will get an access denied message. The user can only access, for example the SharePoint site, by surfing to the SharePoint team URL. This is because of the broken inheritance and unique permissions of the department sites.

I advise to give the users read permissions to Departments because you don´t want users to get access denied messages ;-) 

Posted in: SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Online 2010