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.

To change the permission levels for the users or groups, check the box next the user/group and click the Actions dropdown and select Edir User Permissions:

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This page lists all the users for the site. To add a user click the New button which opens the Add Users page:

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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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This will direct you to the Settings page for the list or library.  From this page  click Permissions for this document library from the Permissions and Management menu, this will direct you to the Permissions page where you can select Edit Permissions from the Actions menu. One important thing to note is that by default, all lists and libraries inherit permissions from the site and have the exact same permission sets. To edit the permissions this must be turned off and you will be prompted to accept this after clicking Edit Permissions (unless inheritance has already been turned off).

Once inheritance has been turned off you will be able to edit user permissions or remove users from the Actions menu, or add new users from the New menu.

This will take you to the Manage Permissions page where you can select a user or group and select Edit User Permissions from the Actions menu. This will direct you to the Edit Permissions page where you can assign or remove permissions.

First, navigate to the file or list item you wish to set the permissions for, hover the mouse over it, click the dropdown list and select Manage Permissions (note, that if are not authorized to edit permissions, this option will not be shown).

Selecting Manage Permissions will open up a page showing the permissions for each user or group:

It is important to note that, by default, permission inheritance is set to On. This means that the file or list item inherits permissions from its parent list or library, when inheritance is set to On it is not possible to edit the permissions of the file or list item independent of the list or library. To prevent a file or item inheriting permissions, click the Actions dropdown menu in the Manage Permissions page and select Edit Permissions :

(Note that if inheritance is not On then you will be shown an Inherit Permissions option to turn it on)

After selecting Edit Permissions you will be prompted to confirm that you wish to disconnect the file or list item’s permission from the parent’s, click OK. On the Permissions page, you can select a user/group and remove or edit their permissions by selecting the appropriate option from the Actions menu. Alternatively you can add a user by selecting Add Users from the New menu.

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.