Halt, Who Goes There?
Okay, so now that we’ve gone over the basic types of things that can be done in SharePoint and the four most basic things you will be doing, I’d going to throw a little sand under these wheels and talk about permissions. Because in SharePoint, you’re not just restricted by what you don’t yet know. There are many things you may never be able to do because the site owner doesn’t think you’re the right person to do them. No offense. What you can do depends on what user permission level you’ve been given.
Basically, there are two brackets of permissions levels: those for team sites and those for other sites. Each bracket has several types of users with expanding permissions, kind of like those Russian nesting dolls. Continue reading NEUGS Part 3: SharePoint Permissions Basics