Setting Read-Only Access for a SharePoint Homepage

Overview

Learn how to establish read-only permissions for visitors on a SharePoint site.

By implementing these instructions, you can ensure that external users or guests have limited access to view the content without the ability to make any changes.

Process

1. Go to https://uoregon.sharepoint.com/
2. Sign-in to your Microsoft Account using your full UO email address and password.
3. Click on SharePoint.
   
4. Choose the SharePoint page you would like to set as read-only.
   
5. In the top right corner, select the gear icon and then choose Site contents.
   
6. Right click on the Site Pages folderand then click Settings from the drop-down menu.
   
7. Click on Permissions for this document library from the Permissions and Management column.
   
8. Click Stop Inheriting Permissions.
   
9. Click on checkbox for desired read-only group. The group in this example has Visitors in the name.
   
10. Select checkbox for Read – Can view pages and list items and download documents. Then, click OK button to complete the process.
    

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