Can I assign SharePoint access to a group or only to individuals? #M365AMA
In this episode, the #M365AMA panel discusses the following community question:
“I’m looking for help with provisioning SharePoint access at a group/Team level and it just doesn’t seem to work. I want to be able to provide a group of people access rather than having to add every individual to a doc/site and send them a link. Any tips on the easiest/best way to do this? I would have thought that adding groups via the “Manage Access/ Advanced” menu would provide the relevant access, but this has not worked. i.e. when I have added the relevant group as “visitors” to provide read access, they don’t get access. Individuals still need to request explicit access. Can groups/teams only be added by SP Admins?”
Check out the discussion here:
Participating in this discussion were:
- Christian Buckley @buckleyplanetÂ
- Shari Oswald  @shortcutshari
- Kirsty McGrath @KirstyMcGrath13
- Jonathan Weaver  @j_weaver74
- Sharon Weaver  @sharoneweaver
Some relevant notes/links shared by the team:
- Manage dynamic distribution groups [https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/recipients/dynamic-distribution-groups/dynamic-distribution-groups]
- Default SharePoint groups [https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/default-sharepoint-groups]
- Governing access in Microsoft 365 groups, Teams, and SharePoint [https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/solutions/groups-teams-access-governance?view=o365-worldwide]
