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Understand your SharePoint permissions

Understand your SharePoint permissions

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Understand your SharePoint permissions

- [Voiceover] When you log into a SharePoint site you're able to interact with the list documents and other items on the site based on the permissions that you've been assigned. SharePoint uses role-based access control which allows SharePoint administrators to very precisely control access to sites and to items stored on sites. We're going to talk about permissions extensively later in this course, but this is just the basics so you have an understanding to get you going. There are seven built-in Permission Levels in SharePoint 2016. Full Control means that if you're in that role you can do anything you want with the site, for example, or anything you want with a library that you have full control over. Designers have permissions that are a little bit more limited. They can view and add, update, delete, approve and, more importantly, they can customize the way things look. So this might be a permission level that you give to your web designer. The Edit Permissions Set allows users to…

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