Friends,

I am trying to create a separate permission Group for an Executive(Department) Team who can access all the documents and lists in the portal with only read permissions because they need to see all the documents and lists in the libraries.

I can add them in to SP_Application_User group but i don't want them to edit the documents.

If i create a new group and set a separate permission level with read only setting, they cannot access all the documents in the document libraries and lists because some of the document libraries and lists have separate permission which overrided parent permissions.

Hope i will get help from any of you.

Thanks in advance,

Regards,

Chakri

Hi,

For your issue, you could add the users to Central Administration > Application Management > Policy for Web Application and grant Full Read permissions.

With the configuration, these users have Read permission to the whole web application.

-lambert

Thank you so much Lambert! It did helped me a lot.

• Marked as answer by chakrimalraj Friday, October 30, 2009 8:15 PM
• Unmarked as answer by Lambert Qin [] Monday, November 02, 2009 8:09 AM

Hello,

You can do this way From SharePoint CA --> Application Management --> Policy for web application and grant full and read permissions.

Now they will have the read permission for the targeted web application.

Thanks