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Can I restrict certain Team Members to be 'Read Only' for files, whilst being able to access Posts?
Hi,
Any advice would be much appreciated on this as I've been going round in circles and I don't know how best to resolve it, or if there's another way around it.
Essentially what I am wanting is to be able to add someone within my organisation as a member of a Team (members have edit access by default, as most people require this) but, rather than them being a full member, I just want them to have read only access to the files area.
So we would almost like to have -
Team Owners (can do everything)
Team Members (edit access)
Guests (can see posts but read only access to files)
When adding someone via Teams we only have the Owner / Member choice, with no way to restrict in in finer detail on a per-person basis.
I have tried using Sharepoint permissions to drill into the 'Members' group but - as they were added via Teams - it groups them together as a 365 managed group and doesn't let me amend individual user permissions.
Is there a clever way to do this? Or a different way of adding people so that they can both have read-only access to files and also see the posts area?
Many thanks in advance!
All members have equal access, as you've noted above. If you need to restrict access to specific items, consider putting them into a private channel, or a separate team. Which you can then expose as additional Tab in the team.
You can play with the SharePoint permissions, but as permissions on team sites are not granted on individual user basis, but membership groups, accidents can happen. In other words, it's best to break inheritance... which complicates things. Or you can create a separate library with custom permissions, which brings us back to the above suggestion.
Sensitivity labels are another option.
