{"id":12046,"date":"2025-04-23T14:25:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T12:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/?page_id=12046"},"modified":"2025-08-05T09:41:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T07:41:37","slug":"security-settings","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/metashare\/adminmanual\/settings\/security-settings\/","title":{"rendered":"Security settings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From the security settings page you can configure what accounts and groups are granted Site Collection Administrator permissions on sites created by MetaShare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To access this page, you need to have the Security administrator <a href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/metashare\/get-started\/setup\/how-to-assign-metashares-roles-in-azure\/\">application role<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/settings_security.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/settings_security-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12073\" srcset=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/settings_security-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/settings_security-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/settings_security-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/settings_security.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-accent-2-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recommended<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It is strongly recommended that you assign a service account as Site collection administrator and a security group as Secondary site collection administrator in MetaShare&#8217;s security setting after activation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This way you will not overshare with the global administrator that activated the app (that automatically becomes the site collection administrator in MetaShare workspaces) and you can easily manage administrative access to workspaces using security groups.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-accent-2-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Caution!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Site collection administrator is the highest permission level within a SharePoint site. This should only be used for troubleshooting or advanced custom settings. To manage access to a workspace, it is enough to assign users to the Owners group in the SharePoint site, that has more limited permissions.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the security settings page you can configure what accounts and groups are granted Site Collection Administrator permissions on sites created by MetaShare. To access this page, you need to have the Security administrator application &#8230; <a title=\"Security settings\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/metashare\/adminmanual\/settings\/security-settings\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Security settings\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":12101,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-12046","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"no-featured-image-padding"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12046"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12244,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12046\/revisions\/12244"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}