New permissions content for SharePoint 2013

The SharePoint writing team has been busy completing the permissions content for SharePoint 2013 by publishing the following:

• Configure custom permissions in SharePoint 2013  Describes how to manage custom permissions using permission levels.

• Best practices for using fine-grained permissions in SharePoint Server 2013, Fine-grained permission reference for SharePoint Server 2013,Troubleshoot common fine-grained permissions issues for SharePoint Server 2013   Describe the use, best practices, and common troubleshooting situations for fine-grained permissions, which enable a more precise level of resource access in a SharePoint 2013 environment.

• Video: Understanding permissions in SharePoint  Visually describes SharePoint permissions behavior and steps you through guidelines for securing your sites and data.

• Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate permissions with SharePoint Server 2013  Describes how to configure SharePoint permissions for three scenarios in the intranet and team sites test lab. Watch the SharePoint 2013 Permissions Test Lab Guide overview video.

• Permissions for SharePoint 2013 learning roadmap  Steps you through prerequisite, introductory, intermediate, and advanced learning goals and resources to build your expertise in SharePoint 2013 permissions.

We hope that with these new resources, it will be much easier to understand and manage permissions in SharePoint 2013. Please let us know if we missed something by leaving a comment on this blog post.

Enjoy (but only if permitted)!

 

Joe Davies
Principal Writer

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Very good articles, thanks! For SP2010 you published the FGP whitepaper (www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx). I'm missing some of the more detailed points in that whitepaper in your MSDN entry. Particularly I am interested in what the maximum number of scopes is after which additional SQL Server roundtrips are necessary and similarly after what number of scopes the ACL will break due to the 64KB limit. Has this changed for SharePoint 2013? The maximum number of scopes was set to 5000 with SP2010, now it seems to be 50.000 - what happens to ACLs? While the MSDN entry "Best practices for using fine-grained permissions in SharePoint Server 2013" is a very good read I would like to have some additional information as FGP is an issue many customers face due the being used to legacy system or just Windows file shares. Basically my question is: What is the number of scopes per level I can safely use? E.g. a document library with 1000 folders, each having assigned its own SP group containing one active directory group, that makes 1000 scopes for the document library. Safe? After how many scopes will I have problems with this "flat" structure as I have to think about the parent scopes as well (limited access on the SPWeb)? Will AddToCurrentScopeOnly circumvent some of the problems as I don't have to think about parent scopes?

• Anonymous
  June 05, 2013
  Great article! Thank you for this interesting Points and for sharing :) Sincerely, Daniel from <a href=“www.grobmanschwarz.de/sharepoint“> Sharepoint </a>