Use Case: Duplicating Site Security in SharePoint
A common SharePoint use case: When one site is set up correctly with the right users, groups, and permission levels, Administrators sometimes want to propagate those changes to other sites. But duplicating site settings can be a repetitive and error-prone activity. With ControlPoint, you can quickly select the site to be duplicated, adding those users, groups, and permissions to many other sites in a matter of seconds.
Step 1: Choose the site (the source) from which you would like to duplicate security. Below, I’m selecting the “Alpha Snack Foods” site as my source.
Step 2: Drag and drop the sites (the destinations) to which you want to duplicate permissions from the list of available sites on the left over to the selected items box on the right. The Alpha Snack Foods site users, groups, and permissions will be duplicated to the five selected sites in the red box below.
Notice the check boxes at the top. When selected, ControlPoint will backup your permissions for the source and destination sites, propagate your changes to the lists with matching names, and replace custom permission levels if different at the target.
By default, the action will replace the list of users with direct permissions on a destination site with that of the source site. Any permission levels referenced in the source site that do not exist in the destination site collection will be created as a custom permissions level. If you duplicate security to a site that inherits permissions from its parent, that inheritance will be broken and it will become a site with unique permissions that have been copied from the source. Conversely, if you duplicate security to a parent site, child objects with inherited permissions will inherit the new permissions that have been copied from the source.
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Guest author Steve Goldberg (@iamgoldberg) is a Sales Engineer
in Axceler's Los Angeles office.