Solving the complexities of ‘modern’ Sharepoint

Have you read this article by Veronique Palmer? It cites ‘28 Reasons Why Modern SharePoint Online Site Permissions are a Hot Mess!‘. Whilst it was created a little while ago now, these are still issues that experienced Sharepoint users are facing when it comes to their Data Access Governance.

The article points out that in classic SharePoint, previously around for 17 years, the permissions worked simply as follows :

1. Three default permission groups with every team site created – Members, Owners, Visitors.
2. Only the person who created the site is added to the Owners and Members group.
3. The default Members group had Contribute for a permission level which allowed used to add, edit and delete content on a site.
4. Site Collection Administrators had super power rights over all the sites in the site collection.
5. Central Admin rights in on-premise SharePoint, gave you rights over all site collections and settings.
6. In Office 365, that permission level is split up into Global Admin, Exchange Admin and SharePoint Admin rights.
7. SharePoint Admin rights gave you super power in the SharePoint Admin Centre to view and manage all available site collections.
8. Sites created in SharePoint Online used to be all in classic with the standard 3 default groups created which all get managed in SharePoint itself.

But when things changed to ‘modern’, the permissions for internal sharing got complicated, contradicting the already established Data Governance measures of many enterprises. You can read the 28 key issues Veronique has identified here.

But what if you could rewind, to a simpler method of controlling internal data access once again? The good news is Torsion removes the complexity of Data Access Governance, and the majority of the 28 issues highlighted. By automating data access control and securing permissions, data owners and access – enterprise users can once again have a clear Data Governance process and audit, without the manual resources required to circumnavigate the complexities of modern Sharepoint.

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