Share Permissions in Windows 10

Introduction

Sharing files and folders is both a basic and essential task performed by nearly all organizations on a daily basis. It allows organization employees to share organization resources based on their need to use them while simultaneously not sharing resources with outsiders and those who do not have a business need to use the resources. Windows 10 makes sharing files and folders easy by using share permissions to control who can use resources on organization networks. 

This article will detail share permissions in Windows 10. We’ll examine what share permissions are, who share permissions apply to, the different share permissions and the rights they confer, how to use share permissions to share a folder and how to use share permissions to share files with specific people, a new Windows 10 option. 

What are share permissions?

Share permissions manage folder and drive access over an organization network. These share permissions apply to the contents of a shared folder, meaning that you cannot granularly control file access in a share. 

Windows 10 users now can granularly share files on their system (in part due to network discovery) with specified users. Share permissions allow you to specify how many users can access the share and can be used with FAT, FAT32 and NTFS file systems. Each share permission can be configured to control access to shared resources by setting them to either “allow” or “deny” access. 

Please note that by default, all organization active directory users are in the user group “Everybody.”

Who do share permissions apply to?

Simply put, share permissions apply to potentially all users in an organization. Share permissions also apply to security groups alike. Security groups are created in Active Directory and make management of large groups of users easy.

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