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Understanding permissions

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Understanding permissions

In many companies, we're used to IT being the ones who handle user and group security. Well, in SharePoint, it's your job, it's your problem. Or certainly if you're expecting to be someone who creates and customizes SharePoint sites, it's your job. The security settings in SharePoint aren't hidden away in central administration only for the admin guys. They are right there in a regular site, and it's intended that if you are a site owner or a site collection owner that you understand and work with security. But it's really not that bad, and here's why. SharePoint, when its installed, is typically hooked up to an existing user directory, usually Active Directory on a Microsoft platform, but it could be something different. It's usually configured to import and stay synchronized with that user information on a regular basis. What that means is that SharePoint knows about your users. You don't have to tell SharePoint, hey, there's a user called Bob Franklin, because SharePoint already…

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