I have a lot of Sharepoint sites that I need to setup permissions on. Manually opening each site and adding users takes a lot of time. It is also tedious as these users are usually the same ones across many (but not all) of the sites.
Is there a way to group manage these sites (without inherited permissions)?
I have seen a few programs out there that do it, but they are not free. Normally that would not be too much of a problem, but my company has put out a purchasing freeze. So I have no hope of buying any tools for this.
Before I spend all that time manually updating each site, I thought I would see if there is a free tool out there that helps me do this.
You can use PowerShell to help automate this, you may want to get started with the instructional video here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/ee518673
To help get you started - a simple script like this to add a user to a site:
You can also remove users easily enough:
You may also find these getting started instructions helpful: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee806878.aspx