SP16: Remove users and Limited Access

Question

I have a couple dozen users who are being removed from SharePoint. I'm using

Remove-SPUser

to remove them, which seems to be working.

However, we run a report which still shows them as having Limited Access to certain libraries. I know that Limited Access usually means that that the user has access to an item nested deeper (eg: FolderC) but not to the items in the outer (FolderA).

How can I remap or remove these?

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi, @sco gordo ,

Just as you mention, the Limited Access usually means the user has access to an item nested deeper. It provides the user a limited gateway to get to the item he/she has permission. If you want to remove the limited access, you need to manually remove the user permission on the items the user can access.

If your report has provide the actual location of the items mentioned above, you simply need to remove the permissions by hand. Or you can go to the permission settings page, you’ll see a message

Some content on this site has different permissions from what you see here. Show these items

Click Show these items to find the files and items with exceptions and remove the permission.

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