How to bulk update Space permissions to add a group or an user to multiple spaces at once

Summary

You need to update several spaces at once to add/update spaces for which a certain group or individual user must have a certain subset of permissions.

Please also take a look at the following Community Blog post where this functionality was announced: Manage Confluence space access in bulk

Environment

Confluence Cloud

Solution

1. Access Confluence Administration > Space Permissions:

2. Click Add people to all spaces > Choose a user or group:

3. Choose a user or a group to bulk update Space Permissions.

4. Choose if you want to make this bulk update on All spaces (Global & Personal), only on Global Spaces, or only on Personal Spaces.

5. Choose which subset of permissions the user/group is supposed to have after the action is performed.

Note: If you choose a user or group that is already part of some spaces, this action will UPDATE the current permissions to spaces with the new subset that you've selected above.

6. Hit Add to all.