There has been quite a bit of chatter on advantages/disadvantages of SharePoint Designer (SPD) the last few days. Though I believe SPD has a place; I personally tend not to use it very often. As a developer, I like to have a little more control over things. For example, I tend to go old school and create master pages/CSS in NotePad++. With that in mind, I have received many queries on how to limit SPD to certain individuals in the organization.
There are many ways to limit SPD use:
- Turn off site editing. An example can be found here.
- Disable access to sites in SPD. My buddy John Ferringer has a CodePlex project to do this.
- Use security permissions to limit access to SPD.
- Only give users you want access to SPD tool.
For this post, I am going to concentrate on using security permissions to limit access to SPD.
