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title: "Create a SharePoint Security Group"
canonical: "https://kb.uconn.edu/space/IKB/28169043978/Create%20a%20SharePoint%20Security%20Group"
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Students, faculty, and staff can create Security Groups to apply to SharePoint sites in which they are the Owner of. A single group can be granted specific permissions across different SharePoint sites.

> ✅ A “Security Group” is a custom SharePoint group that can be used across multiple SharePoint sites. If you need a custom group for only one site, please review the [https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/26268303404](https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/26268303404) guide.

## Create the group

1. Visit [https://myaccount.microsoft.com/groups/](https://myaccount.microsoft.com/groups/) and click on **Create Security Group**.
2. Be sure to give the group a <u>unique and practical</u> name, as you will need to search for it in the Global Address Book when applying it.
3. Choose the appropriate policy for the group.  
You likely do not want the “open to join for all users” option, as <u>anyone</u> at the university will be able to join the group and use the permissions you have granted to the group.
4. After you have created the group, you will be brought to the group details page. Click on the **Members **tab to view the members.
  Click on **Add** to add people by their email address to your new group.

## Grant permissions to the group

Navigate to <u>[s.uconn.edu/sharepoint](http://s.uconn.edu/sharepoint)</u> and click on your SharePoint site.

### To grant this group permission to a specific folder

1. Find the folder and right-click to **Share** the folder.  
⚠️ This will send an email notification to everyone in the group. Skip to Step 4 if you do not want to email the members.
2. In the recipient field, type in the name of your group.
3. Chose if the group should have Edit or Read privilege, and the click **Send**. You are done.
4. If you do not want to have an email sent to the group, close the Share window and again right-click on the folder and click on **Manage access**
  1. At the top of the popup window, click on the ellipsis and click on **Advanced settings**.
  2. Click on **Grant Permissions** in the top-left corner and in the popup window, click on **SHOW OPTIONS** and uncheck “Send an email invitation”.
  3. In the recipient field, type in the name of your group and click on **Share **to finish.

### To grant this group permission to a whole site

1. Click the **Settings** gear icon in the upper right. It may take a moment for this icon to appear.
2. Click **Site Permissions**.
3. Click **Advanced permissions settings**.
4. You can now see the site’s Groups.  
Click on the group that you would like to add your Security Group to.
5. Click on **New** to add new members to the group
6. Click on **SHOW OPTIONS** and uncheck “Send an email invitation” if you do not want to email the users.
7. Type in the name of your security group in the recipients field and click **Share** to finish.

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