SharePoint 2013 Security for Users

Learn how to how control and protect information from the site collection level on down, and create custom roles, groups, and permission levels with SharePoint 2013.

Balancing security and user satisfaction is hard. But with SharePoint's built-in security features and customizable roles and permissions, you can give your users access to everything they need and restrict access to everything they don't. Join Spike Xavier, as he shows how to use SharePoint's security mechanisms to control and protect information from the site collection level on down. Plus, learn how to create custom roles, groups, and permission levels to cover what SharePoint doesn't do straight out of the box. Spike will also cover how security impacts search functionality in SharePoint—specifically content revealed in Web Parts and views—and show how to document your SharePoint security strategy.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course

1. SharePoint Security Fundamentals

• Introduction
• Authentication
• Authorization
• SharePoint security for collaboration
• SharePoint mall map
• Levels of access control

2. SharePoint Users and Their Roles

• Introduction
• SharePoint security groups
• SharePoint permission levels
• Collaboration versus publishing

3. Accessing Content

• Introduction
• Site access
• List/library access
• Document/item access
• Checking permission

4. Restricting Access to Content

• Introduction
• Web application policies
• Site collection boundaries
• Permission inheritance
• Custom security levels
• Custom SharePoint groups

5. Roles and Responsibilities

• Introduction
• Farm administrators
• Site collection administrators
• Site owners
• Site members
• Site visitors

6. Security for Publishing Sites

• Introduction
• Restricted readers
• Designers
• Approvers
• Hierarchy managers

7. Managing SharePoint Security Groups

• Introduction
• Group ownership
• Group membership
• Viewing membership
• Managing access requests

8. Search and SharePoint Security

• Introduction
• Web Parts and SharePoint security
• Audiences and SharePoint security
• Views and SharePoint security

9. Planning Worksheets

• Introduction
• Strategies
• Solutions
• Review

Conclusion

• Next steps