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Published inJan 2011
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ISBN-139781849681087
Edition1st Edition
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Peter Serzo
Peter Serzo
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Peter Serzo

Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
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Checking effective permission user interface


Once SharePoint 2010 is rolled out into an environment, it takes on a life of its own. Team sites, project sites, and other collaboration sites are created to fit the pressing business needs.

Along with each of these sites, security may be manipulated by breaking inheritance. This type of granularity breeds complexity. Sites are provisioned but not decommissioned due to the sheer number of sites. It is a common request from users to know what sites they have access to and what permissions they have on those sites. There is functionality within sites that provides such information.

The following recipe shows how to use this functionality.

Getting ready

You must be a site owner or site collection administrator.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Navigate to the desired team site.

  2. 2. Click Site Actions and then Site Permissions.

  3. 3. Click the Check Permissions option on the ribbon.

  4. 4. The following screen pops up:

  5. 5. Enter the name of a user or group.

  6. 6. Click Check Now. The...

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook
Published in: Jan 2011Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781849681087

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Peter Serzo

Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
Read more about Peter Serzo