Removing Users from a Group
The following steps detail how to remove a user from the Members group:
- Click the gear icon (from the top right of the home page of the site collection).
- Click Site Settings from the menu.
- Under the Users and Permissions heading, click the People and Groups link.
- By default, SharePoint will open a page of the Members group.
- Check the check box next to each user you wish to remove from the group.
- From the sub-menu (New, Actions, and Settings), click Actions, and then click Remove Users from Group.
- Click OK in the warning dialog that appears.
Note Removing a user from a SharePoint security group does not remove the user from the site collection.
Group Settings and Permissions
From within any of the Group pages (see the
previous subsections), click the Settings menu item from the sub-menu
(New, Actions, and Settings). The following list describes the various
settings options available for the group in context:
- Group Settings—Click this option and SharePoint shows a page like that of Figure 3,
which details general settings for the group, such as the group owner,
who has rights to see into the group for lists of users, whether users
can request to join or leave the group, and similar actions. The group
owner may also delete the group from this page.
- The Name and About Me sections of this page contain the name and
description of the group. The Group Owner field is a people field that
contains the name of the person who created the group and is therefore
the owner.
- The Group Settings section allows you to specify who has access to
view the members in the group and who may edit members of the group.
Either all group members have access to see other members of the group
or everyone with access to the site collection has this access. You may
choose either the group owner or members of the group (thus delegating
responsibility of group membership to other members of the group) to
allow editing of membership of the group.
- The Membership Requests section allows you to control how users may
request access to a group and how to leave. By default, SharePoint does
not allow requests from users to join or leave the group. Toggle the
option to Yes to allow this capability. Once users may request to join
a group, the second option tells SharePoint whether to auto-accept all
requests. Be careful enabling this option—if you secure areas
of your site with group permissions and then allow anyone to request
membership of the group with auto-accept turned on, then any user can
gain access to the secured areas to which the group has access.
- View Group Permissions—Click this option to see what permission levels this group has and for what securable objects (sites, lists, pages).
- Make Default Group—Click this option to assign the group as the default “Members” group.
- List Settings—Shows a List Settings page similar to the
standard list settings page; in this case the group owner can modify
the views and columns shown.
