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Setting Site Permission Inheritance

If a large number of sites in your SharePoint deployment have the same users, you may benefit from setting up site permission inheritance. This allows users from a site “above” the site in question to have access to the subsite. In essence, the permissions and site group memberships “flow down” to the subsites, when sites are configured this way. Site permission inheritance can be configured when a site is first created, or it can be modified at a later time. As a Site Administrator, you can use the following procedure to change permissions to flow down from an above site:

1.	From the site home page, click Site Settings.
2.	Under Administration, click Go to Site Administration.
3.	Click Manage Permission Inheritance ...