This opens the New Group page with several options.

• Name and About Me – simply enter the Name and Description
• Owner – This setting defaults to the current user but any user can be chosen. The owner can add or remove users from the group and change the group’s  settings (even if the owner doesn’t have the permission to manage the site itself). Be sure to ensure that the owner has permissions to access the site.
• Group Settings – Define who can see the list of users in the group.
• Membership Requests – Define if people can send join requests or remove requests. If you enable people to send request you must provide an email address which the requests will be sent to.
• Give Group Permissions to this Site – Define what permission level the group will have on the site.

Finally, click Create and the group will be created.

This opens the Add Users page (below) where you can either add users by entering them in the Users/Groups box (names should be separated by a semicolon)  or click the address book to search and select users from the directory. After you have selected the users to add, either select the group to which you wish to add them or give the users direct permissions. The latter option is not recommended as it will make subsequent administration more difficult since each user’s permissions will have to been updated separately in future.

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If you have created a group in Sharepoint you will likely want to create some custom permissions for the group.

1. Select Site Settings > Advanced Permissions (alternatively click ‘Site Permissions’ in the far left column).
2. Click Settings > Permission Levels:
   
3. Click Add Permission Level
4. Name the new permission level and configure the permissions using the checkbox listing and then click Create.
   
5. Navigate to the Permissions page (you can easily do this using the ‘breadcrumbs’ navigation trail just above the page title).
6. The new permission you just created should now be visible in the Permissions listing and you can select it and click OK. Technically you can have more than two sets of permissions for a Sharepoint group but this is usually not best practice. It is far better to create a single permission level. One exception to this is Delete permissions, as Delete can have serious consequences Delete is sometimes isolated to a dedicated permission level so admins can very clearly see which groups have Delete permissions.
   

Adding a group is very simple:

1. In Site Settings > People and Groups. Click the arrow dropdown beside New and select New Group
   
2. Add the name of the group and click Create
   

That’s it, next we will edit the permissions of the Sharepoint group.

Adding a group is very simple:

1. In Site Settings > People and Groups. Click the arrow dropdown beside New and select New Group
   
2. Add the name of the group and click Create
   

That’s it, next we will edit the permissions of the Sharepoint group.