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Hi ,

Has anyone used Microsoft software tools to automate the creation of SharePoint Online (SPO) user permissions?

If there's no suitable off-the-shelf tool available, I might consider building this automation in-house. Has anyone implemented such an initiative?

thanks 

SamanthaPost

What are you trying to automate?  We've done lots of these through the years -- but mostly we recommend assignment through groups -- and then any group management software can handle the task.  Is there a specific scenario you're encountering?

-Rob

hi Robert ,

Good day.

Both - we utilized AD Sync with local SPO with the user group or ,,locally created user group in SharePoint Online itself.

We also have individual user contribute in specific site.

We have are many different scenarios to manage.

Are you suggesting user permission always in a SPO user group ? or user group at the AD level ?

We centralize all user creation or change permission in the HQ office only. We will change gradually when other company IT personnel able to manage this configuration. 

Do share your experience if you have had one before.

Many thanks

Hello Samantha,

As to your issues comments as follow:

Are you suggesting user permission always in a SPO user group ? or user group at the AD level ?

>> if you can control user permission in SPO user group will be same user group at the AD and it will be easy just to sync AD data toto  SPO data.

Do share your experience if you have had one before.

>> We now have a project that user group in AD seem not suitable to use for SPO user group permission and we design a proxy service to convert AD user data with some customized procedure into SPO group user permission via SPO API ... I think it will be easier for you to control SOP users group permission on a central site ...   

regard !!

Hi Samantha -

You might find the whitepaper we wrote a few years ago useful.

https://thorprojects.com/connect/resources/white-papers/sharepoint-site-collection-security-strategy/

While the language has changed a bit since we wrote this, the principles are solid.

Hi Samantha,

HELUX.ai does have a tool called THEMIS IA (information architecture) that can help automate the creation of SPO sites, including SPO security groups for those sites. The tool does much more, too. THEMIS IA is a no-code solution that helps organizations manage their "IA chaos" when designing, building, and publishing essential IA components. Please contact me if you're interest and would like to chat.

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Amitabh Srivastav, CIP, IGP, PMP
CDO & VP, Compliance & Risk Management
amitabh@...
HELUX.ai
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thank you Amitabh  - will take a look  HELUX.ai company website to find out more and is your company time zone is North America or ?