Grant Permissions to All Communication Sites Associated with a Hub Site

ByMarc D Anderson

This isn’t rocket science, but it’s something I do often enough that I want to lodge the PowerShell in a post instead of continuing to rewrite it. When we are building an Intranet, we often want to grant permissions for all the Communication Sites to a small set of people during the testing process. This…

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

ByMarc D Anderson

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…

Adding SharePoint Groups as Term Store Contributors Error “This operation cannot be completed. The term store may be unavailable.”

ByMarc D Anderson

I’m working with the Managed Metadata Service for a client project, and we ran into an issue in the Term Store Management Tool. We’d like to add a SharePoint group as Contributors to a specific Term Store Group. On the Term Store Management screen, the instructions say: Contributors Enter user names, group names, or e-mail…

Managing SharePoint Site User Memberships in Multiple Groups Using SPServices

ByMarc D Anderson

I got an email yesterday from Geoff Oliver. He said he had done something pretty useful with SPServices and wondered if I would be interested in seeing it. I manage about 115 groups in a single site collection…and that number is expected to grow.  I found that when a new user came on board or…

Active Directory Groups vs. SharePoint Groups for User Management: The Denouement

ByMarc D Anderson

Last week I did a post about when you might decide to use Active Directory groups versus SharePoint groups. It was less about managing the security, and more about understanding the membership of the groups. I got a *lot* of comments, emails, tweets, grumbles, and groans about the post. This seems to be a really common…

Active Directory Groups vs. SharePoint Groups for User Management: A Dilemma

ByMarc D Anderson

<UPDATE date=”2011-02-22″> If you find this topic interesting, you might also like to read my follow up post Active Directory Groups vs. SharePoint Groups for User Management: The Denouement </UPDATE> I’m working with a small municipality and, like I always do, I recommended that they manage user groups in Active Directory as much as possible. Then they…

How Does the “All People” View Work in SharePoint?

ByMarc D Anderson

I got a question today from someone at one of my clients about how the All People page works. This is the page found at: http://[ServerName]/[SiteCollectionRoot]/[SubSitePath]/_layouts/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=0 Here’s the question: I’ve noticed that in the All People page of my department site, accessible from the People And Groups section, some users are listed with the Created…