How to Manage SharePoint Site Permissions
Update: 2010-02-04
Sharon has confirmed the time for this event: 1:00pm EST (NYC).
Event time and date: February 8, 2010, 1:00pm EST.
Because of the overwhelming number of people interested in this event, our internal servers can not be used for the session. Dux Raymond Sy from Innovative-e has volunteered to sponsor the session through Live Meeting. That bumps us up to the ability to host 1000 people! Thanks Dux.
Please register immediately to confirm your live online, virtual “seat” for this event.
We’ll be running the same setup that worked so well for SharePoint Saturday EMEA. While Live Meeting is running, we’ll have an open public chat room so that you can give immediate feedback and questions to Sharon in the context of the presentation.
Original Article
I had a long talk on Friday with Sharon Richarson of JoiningDots.net. I was intrigued by her slidedeck, shown below, that takes beginning and intermediate SharePoint site managers through the basic steps of security and permissions in SharePoint.
Sharon and I have been talking about working together for a while now, so this seemed like a perfect opportunity to get started. EndUserSharePoint.com will sponsor a free, half hour live online talk, as Sharon walks through her slidedeck on SharePoint permissions, taking Q&A in the process. I have put up a registration form for this free event. I’d like to give the presentation in two weeks, if there’s enough interest.
A week or two after her presentation, we’re going to run a live online, 2 hour workshop to give site managers hands-on instruction for implementing security, building permission levels, and developing a set of best practices when creating security for a new SharePoint site.
I’ve had many requests for a workshop on security, so I’ve very pleased to be working with Sharon. Register for the free presentation, and then we’ll let you know when we run the hands-on workshop… probably the last week of February / first week of March.
“Sharon Richardson has over 17 years industry experience. She previously worked at Microsoft and was one of the first people to specialise in SharePoint. Before Microsoft, Sharon spent eight years within multi-national corporations building collaborative systems using available technologies.”
Great presentation Sharon! Very concise and easy to follow. Seems more and more people are using SlideShare now. I like the quick play experience (no clunky download windows / client requirements).
Tome Shirley wrote a component (http://www.codeplex.com/AccessChecker) which helps by giving all users a graphical inheritance tree. I’ve found it priceless for troubleshooting “I can’t access” help tickets.
Best,
@spjeff
As part of the Fourth Release of the Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit (http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/08/27/announcing-the-fourth-release-of-the-microsoft-sharepoint-administration-toolkit.aspx) Microsoft now provides a simple SharePoint-addon called Permissions Reporting Tool.
Hi Jeff
Many thanks for the kind feedback. And yes, I’ve also tried Google Docs but Slideshare loads faster when embedded and seems to do better conversions when you upload. Personally, I think MS should buy Slideshare to compliment Office web apps… ;-)
And good reminder about AccessChecker. I’ve used it a fair few times with clients to help them unpick their permissions and had forgotten all about it. Will add onto the blog notes. Cheers!
Hi Sharon
Great presentation !
When will the SP 2010 version be out ?
Regards
Nigel
Very informative, You clear many doubts, I am so much thankful to you and looking forward for the online talk.
EndUsers are the key in SharePoint Success and this site is really taking a very good care:)
Thanks again