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  1. Navigate to s.uconn.edu/sharepoint and click on your SharePoint site.

  2. Click the Settings gear icon in the upper right. It may take a moment for this icon to load.

  3. Click Site Permissions.

  4. Click Advanced permissions settings.

  5. Click on the group in which you would like to add users.

    1. Owners can make administrative changes to the site and add/remove users.

    2. Members can add, edit, and delete files.

    3. Visitors can only read/view files.

  6. Click on New and then Add Users.

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  7. Type out the email addresses of those you would like to add to your SharePoint site.

  8. Click Share when you are done.

  9. You may close this popup window now.

Alternate: Add Users by having them Request Access

If you would instead like your users to request access to your SharePoint site, you can follow these instructions.

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  1. Navigate to s.uconn.edu/sharepoint and click on your SharePoint site.

  2. Highlight the URL in your browser in order to copy your site URL. Copy up to the end of the name of your site between the two slashes, as shown below.

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  3. Copy this link and send it to your users.

  4. When they clink on the link, they will be brought to a UConn log in screen.
    If they need to edit files or add some of their own, they must type in their email address that is associated with their Microsoft account.

  5. They will then have the opportunity to type a message before they click on Request Access.

  6. Note that they cannot request access to a subset of the data on the site, they must request access to the entire site.

  7. You will receive an email notifying you of their request.

    1. If they should have access to the entire site, you may grant it from this email

    2. If they should only have access to a subset of the site’s data, please view this guide: Users Request Access to SharePoint Folder.

  8. Once you have granted them access, you are done.

Remove existing external members

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