The page for creating a new SharePoint group has several options you can set for the group (see Figure 1). You can modify all these settings later by editing the group’s settings.
The first options are the
name for the group and its description. The next option is the owner of
the group. This setting defaults to you, but you can choose any other
user. You just need to make sure the user you choose has permissions to
access the site. The owner can add and remove users from the group, as
well as change the group’s settings, even if the owner doesn’t have
permissions to manage the site itself. This means you can make anyone
an owner of a group without giving that user permissions to manage
other aspects of the site.
In
the Group Settings section, you can define who can see the list of
people who have been added to the group; the options are everyone or
just the people who are members of the group. Also, you can define
whether only the owner can add and remove members or whether anyone who
is a member can do so (effectively making the group self-managing).
The next section on this page,
Membership Requests, enables you to define whether people can send
requests to join or be removed from the group. If you want to enable
this option, you must specify an e-mail address to which the requests
will be sent. Users then have the option of sending requests to join
the group when viewing it. You can also choose that if a user requests
to join the group, the request should be automatically accepted.
Finally, in the last section of
the page, you can define what permission levels the group will have on
the site.
