Hi All, After rewatching the video myself, I know there's even more to talk about permissions. Best practices and more, I'll be sure to make a part 2! Feel free to leave any questions that you want addressed in part 2! Thanks for watching!
Thanks John! Way too kind, I was already judging myself where I could of worded things better 😆 but it's really hard without making an hour long video! Thanks though hopefully the video helps a few, and I think it took me 3 years and couple clicks. Hahahah
One aspect of this that I've seen cause a LOT of problems is that Microsoft Teams expects "members" of the team to have Edit access to the site and the Documents library within it. If you change that, then some features and functions in the MS Teams app will break. For example, if you change the permission from Edit to Read, they will get an error message when trying to attach files to posts in a channel (because they don't have access to upload files to the Documents library). Even if you change it to Contribute, they won't be able to do things like add Lists to Teams (at least, not new lists) because being able to create a list in the site requires Edit permission. In my Teams (and SharePoint) workshops, I pretty much just tell people to NOT mess with the default permissions in a team-connected site without first consulting with the SharePoint support team in our organization.
This is so true, thanks for explaining this Chad. In a Group or Teams site, don't touch. Without that it would be Ok. Thanks for explaining I hope others are able to read your comment too, this is such a big tip!
This just made things more confusing, because: 1) You created a SharePoint site using admin-level access which most of us don't have, so why put that in?; and 2), you were switching between sites, (and Teams) so fast that it was difficult to be clear which site we were looking at. That made it necessary to watch several times.
In all of the companies I have worked for we do not allow users to create SharePoint sites, only admin. I guess I should recommend that. It's very difficult to govern sites if they are created in the wild west and you end up with no site naming structure, sites inside sites, a big mess and no governance at all. My bad for going too fast I'm working on slowing it down. Thanks for watching.
