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Prevent deletion of SharePoint files
We had a situation where an end user accidentally deleted thousands for files under a SharePoint document library via OneDrive. The document library itself is accessible to everyone within the co...
- You need to create a new permission role and assign that to users. Go to the SharePoint site permissions, it's under advanced on the home page. Add a role and select just the permissions the user needs and not delete. Now go to library and change the user group permissions to that new role.
You need to create a new permission role and assign that to users. Go to the SharePoint site permissions, it's under advanced on the home page. Add a role and select just the permissions the user needs and not delete. Now go to library and change the user group permissions to that new role.
Alan MarshallThanks for your help, much appreciated.
The setting is under Site settings > Site permissions > Permission levels.
ashmelburnian I'm not seeing the Manage options on our SharePoint sites. We are on a Government Tenant, so I'm wondering if that feature just isn't available yet or if it is something we can add to the menu.
- Hi Jilian,
I had the same problem. Not sure if this actually fixed but I added myself to the individual site as an additional admin and the referenced Permissions levels tab appeared after 15 minutes or so. Go figure.
