Providing read-only notebooks to a group of people

I want to know how feasible it is to provide a notebook that is shared by 100 or 150 people yet remains read-only. They could still have their own personal notebooks, but this notebook (which I would be updating every few days with new content) would ensure we are providing a consistent repository of information to this group of people. 

Is such a thing possible? If so, where can I learn more about it? Would people be syncing to OneDrive? 

Any info and advice would be appreciated.

Orson

February 19th, 2015 8:05pm

Hi,

Do you have SharePoint? Make a group of users and grant them the permission to the notebooks, make the permission "Read-only" and you will get what you want.

Or for personal use, you can upload a file to OneDrive and share it to many users, grant different users with different permissions. If you want to use OneDrive and have any questions, you can post the question in OneDrive forum:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive

One more choice is to put the files to a network drive and share the network path to users, grant the users read-only level of permission.

Regards,

Melon Chen
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February 20th, 2015 3:12am

Thanks for the info. 

I want people to have access to the notebook without having to log in to Sharefile. So using OneDrive may be the best solution. But is there somewhere I can read a doc on providing a specific notebook from OneNote via OneDrive that is placed on the user's computer? And then when I make changes to my version and sync up to OneDrive, those changes are copied down to users' hard drives in read-only form? That's what I want to do. 

Maybe this is very basic stuff. But is there some knowledge base article on this? I can seek more info for sure on the OneDrive forum, as you suggested. But this is specific to OneNote. 

Orson

February 20th, 2015 3:07pm

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