Finding the Elusive ‘Set Up Groups for this Site’ Page

When you create a new subsite In SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint Online (Office 365), you have the option to use the same permissions as the parent site or use unique permissions.

If you use unique permissions, you’re taken to a page where you can set up the special groups for the subsite.

Generally, this is a “set it and forget it” page; once you’ve done what you need to do here, you rarely need to go back to the page.

However, sometimes you may decide that you’ve been too granular or not granular enough when you set the groups up. In that case, you may want to go back to the page and change the settings.

Unfortunately, the page is hard to find unless you know exactly where it is. Unless I’m missing it, there’s no navigation option to get back there in the UI. The fact that I can’t find it says that it’s at least too obscure.

If you need to get back to the page, navigate to your subsite and append this to the end of the URL:

_layouts/15/permsetup.aspx

So, for example, if your URL is

https://host.sharepoint.com/test99/_layouts/15/start.aspx#/SitePages/Home.aspx

it would become

https://host.sharepoint.com/test99/_layouts/15/permsetup.aspx

This is another one of those posts I’m doing so I can find the answer on my own blog the next time. I hope it helps you, too!