SharePoint Designer Settings in SharePoint 2010

We have engaged Sam Dolan http://www.pinkpetrol.com/ a SharePoint design specialist to help brand our SharePoint 2010 sites in readiness for our role out later this year. As Sam started work on the demo site last night I had a twitter conversation with him as he did not have access to the master page and it was only when I checked in

Central Admin -> General Application Settings -> SharePoint Designer

That I found that there are 4 settings boxes and out of the box only one is enabled the settings are:-

Allow SharePoint Designer to be used in the web application (On by default)

Allow site collection administrators to detach pages from the site template

Allow site collection administrators to customize master pages and layout pages

Allow site collection administrators to see the URL structure of their website

After enabling the Customize master pages Sam was able to continue with the work. It seems that Microsoft are tightening security setting all through their product range which I must admit is not a bad idea, gone are the days of creating a share on a server and have everyone full control over the share.

SharePoint Designer settings

Dave

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