Publishing feature in Sharepoint 2010: Groups

Question

Someone told me a while ago that it isn't recommended to delete the groups that are created when activating the publishing feature on sitecollection-level. Anyone who has an idea why? I'd like to keep the amount of groups on the sites as minimal as possible, but I need the publishing...

Some of the extra groups that are created:

• All Authenticated Users
• Approvers
• Designers
• Hierarchy Managers
• NT AUTHORITY\authenticated users
• Quick Deploy Users
• Restricted Readers
• Style Resource Readers
• Viewers

And what about the document libraries? Can I delete some of those?

Thanks!

Answer 1

If you aren't going to use the groups, I can't think of a reason deleting them would be a problem EXCEPT that recreating any one of them can be a real pain. Each group is built up of a combination of settings for the 32 permissions. You might be better off leaving them just in case unless the EXCEPT above doesn't concern you.