SharePoint 2013 – Users\Groups with “Limited Access” permissions are now visible in UI under site permissions

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With the release of April 2016 CU for SharePoint 2013, we now   have the ability to list the User/Group with Limited Access Permissions. This is made available via a link which now shows up in the Notification bar & now provides site admins the ability to manage fine grained permissions on the site.

 When we click on “Show Users” link, it   takes you to a page where the respective user principal with Limited Access permissions is now visible.   ShowUsers LimitedAccess

 

NOTE: By definition, Limited Access allows users to access certain areas of the site, such as a specific list, library, item, or document, without giving users access to your entire site.  So removing a user with Limited Access will in fact remove that user from all the areas in which they had fine-grained permissions set up. Please be cautious while removing users  with fine grained permissions.

POST BY: Anoop Prasad [MSFT]