Permissions and Your Governance Strategy

In my second webinar in the ‘Governance Rules!’ series for the European SharePoint community entitled “Why Permissions Drive Your Governance Strategy,” I focused on one of the most important aspects of the governance puzzle: clarifying plans for permissions management. If governance is about helping you to organize, optimize, and manage your systems and resources, then permissions is the vehicle through which governance is enabled. Generally speaking, when a user reports a problem with SharePoint, the first place an administrator will look is to their permissions — does the user have access to the location, and the right level of access? Similar to the popular Microsoft Windows refrain “Have you tried turning it off and on again?” is the common SharePoint question “Do you have the right permissions?”