Add Owners and Members to a custom SharePoint Site

Owned by Dan Jakubiak
Last updated: Jun 07, 2023
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Follow this guide if you created your SharePoint site yourself. If your site was created by ITS for you, follow the https://uconn.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/IKB/pages/26281673138 guide.

This article covers how site owners can add, users to a SharePoint site.

Adding UConn Users as Members

  1. Navigate to s.uconn.edu/sharepoint.

  2. Click on your site, then click on [#] members in the top right.

  3. Click Add Members.

  4. Search for the people you would like to add by either their name or their email address.

  5. Decide the access level these new users should have.

    1. Add them as a Member if you would like them to have read/write (edit) access to all of the files in the SharePoint site. Members can also share files.

    2. Add them as an Owner if you would like them to be able to add other users to this site as you are now.

  6. Click Save.

New users added will be added as a Member by default. You can change their role to Owner by using the drop-down arrow under their name.

Adding External (Non-UConn) Users

External users (those without UConn email addresses) can be added to SharePoint sites as Guests by using SharePoint's integration with Outlook groups.

  1. Navigate to s.uconn.edu/sharepoint.

  2. Click on your site, then click Members in the top right.

  3. Follow the hyperlink to go to Outlook.

     

  4. In the Outlook tab that opens, go to the “Groups” heading and click Owner to view the groups that you are an owner of.

  5. Select the SharePoint site that you want to add the external user to.

  6. Select the Members tab and click Add members.

  7. Enter the email address of the external user you want to add.

  8. Click Add.