Personal space not being created automatically

Question

Hello everyone,

We give access to our users trough dynamic group membership in Azure that are imported in Atlassian.

However when a new user is added to the confluence application, his personnal space is never created.

When we do it manually, the personal space is taking the "default permission for a new space" which is super annoying, since the permissions for a personal space is totally different from permission for a normal / public space...

How can we change ? I can't find a single setting about personal spaces. Most annoying is to have to create a personal space for each new user joining our company.

thanks

Marc -Devoteam- · Answer

Hi @Thomas Masquelier

Yes they will inherit the set space permissions as set in the global settings.

Thomas Masquelier · Answer

Thanks, I saw this complain that was being disccused for years and didn't see it was resolved, so i tought it was an issue because of our syncing process.

So by default, personal space will have the default permission defined in "space permission" settings ?

Marc -Devoteam- · Answer

Hi @Thomas Masquelier

Welcome to the community.

This can't be done. This option has been realised and promoted by Atlassian once, but this gotten them in a storm of negative feedback from Confluence Admins.

As it seems a nice feature, for major instance this is a "hell", if you have 5K of users in your system and all of them by default have a personal space and there will be one generated for each new user.

The admin burden is immense, keeping up on left user space, abandoned, never used personal spaces.

This is why Atlassian decided user are able to enable their personal space at will and not have it as default.

Also in my opinion a user is responsible for creating their own space if need and also responsible for the permission they set as it is there space.