Locking Down SharePoint Designer

re: Locking Down SharePoint Designer

Alex Angas — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:00:39 GMT

At a recent SharePoint User Group UK meeting, the use of vti_safeeditingconfigfileurl was mentioned. Can you please expand on that?

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re: Locking Down SharePoint Designer

Gene — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:27:03 GMT

The bottom line for me is that MOSS 2007 does not provide a good way to handle access to SP Designer. We need SP Designer access to be limited to IT staff. We can't do that without stripping away other essential rights for other users. This issue is VERY important for large organizations!

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CodeJedi.NET — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:06:15 GMT

Last week the SharePoint Designer Team posted an excellent article on the options available to lock particular

re: Locking Down SharePoint Designer

Deepa — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 12:35:05 GMT

We have installed WSS 3.0 on our server.

I have installed Sharepoint Designer on my computer. I am able to open the

Site in Sharepoint Designer and was also able to edit it but now i am not able to open the site for editing. When i double click on the default.aspx file i see a hourglass and then it

does nothing. I tried using right click and open with Sharepoint designer but

same result.

Note: I have a 60 days trial version of Sharepoint Designer.

Any help is appreciated.

regards

deepa

re: Locking Down SharePoint Designer

Sanket Shah — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:20:51 GMT

Hi,

Thank you very much for your post, I leant a lots from your post.

Above post information and contents are very useful for locking down SharePoint Designer (SPD) at various levels, good work.

But I have observed that at each level, we have some or another limitation to lock down SPD only, my requirement would be to lock down SPD for normal users and only admin users can use SPD, so If I go with giving Permission for Web Application level for specific users & group, then my problem will solve at some level, “Browse Directories” permission is dependent on other 4 permission level, I would like to see and have normal users same options into SharePoint site when they browse the site and also they should not have access to SPD, in all case, if I make any changes into permission then it's also apply to SPD and SharePoint site while browsing.

Is there any way from which I can just control locking of SPD only, not limited access options into SharePoint site from browser?

I have also tried to give contributor rights from SPD, but I didn't find place from where I can attach or link users/group to contributor rights.

Thanks once again,

Sanket Shah

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re: Locking Down SharePoint Designer

Robin Majumdar — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:23:33 GMT

Wow Stephen, thanks for compiling all this excellent information - I think many SharePoint server admins are breathing a collective sigh of relief seeing these protective methods being available.

Is there a similar summary of SPD blocking for SPS 2003 / WSS 2.0 environments ?

Thanks,

Robin

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re: Locking Down SharePoint Designer

Stephen — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:33:03 GMT

@Robin, glad you find the info helpful.

In SPS 2003 / WSS 2.0 environments, you can still modify ONET.XML:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/838117

And the "big three" permissions discussed above can still be used both in Central Administration and in individual site collections and sites.

But I think permission policies were introduced in MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0. And Contributor Settings is available only in SPD 2007 for use with MOSS 2007 / WSS 3.0.

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re: Locking Down SharePoint Designer

MiscBytes — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:00:00 GMT

I'm late to the party, but thanks for the excellent post and I'm using it right now to lock down SharePoint before some of my more "enquiring minds" start hacking away. :) Thanks!

re: Locking Down SharePoint Designer

Elliot Wood — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:02:16 GMT

Hello, I am trying to enable List permissions: "View Application Pages" for one list only in my site collection to anonymous users.

I have read alot about deactivating "ViewFormPagesLockDown" feature. This does what I want, but for all lists in my site collection. Is there a way to do this for one list, or is there an additional permission level i could create at the site level to "deny" anonymous users List permissions: "View Application Pages".

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Michael Greth [SharePoint MVP] — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:48:17 GMT

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Michael Greth [SharePoint MVP] — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:55:33 GMT

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re: Locking Down SharePoint Designer

Gus Porras — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:11:13 GMT

In our company, the release of SharePoint Designer as a free download is a horrible situation for my team.

We now have people who happily mess things up in their sites and wonder why it happens.

The MS solutions posted don't really address a true Business Need which is as follows:

1) You need to be able to deny all and allow a few.

With the current structure.. you would need to manage 2 AD Groups manually... yes.. that is correct.. 1 AD group which would hold ALL the individual users you want to DENY SPDesigner to.. and a 2nd AD Group to hold the few you want to ALLOW SP Designer use of.

This is a horrible solution if you manage over 20k employees across the world! Such a simple solution would have been what I described above, which by the way is how SharePoint works internally.. that you get the "MOST" privelage and not the "LEAST".

If there is a better option.. I have yet to hear it...

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