How to disable FrontPage 2003 authoring for Windows SharePoint Services (838117)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services
  • Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003

INTRODUCTION

If you are a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Server administrator, and you want to prevent users from opening a SharePoint site in Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003, you can disable the authoring feature so that users cannot use FrontPage 2003 to open sites and to author sites.

MORE INFORMATION

To disable authoring by using FrontPage, add the wdfopensite value to the DisableWebDesignFeatures attribute to the Project Title tag in the Onet.xml file of each Windows SharePoint Services site template. To do this, follow these steps:
  1. On the server that is running Windows SharePoint Services, locate the site template that you want to modify. Site templates are located in the following folders on the server, where Drive is the drive that Windows is installed on, and where LangID is the language version of Windows SharePoint Services that is installed on the server.

    • SharePoint Team Sites: Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extentsions\60\Template\LangID\STS\XML
    • Meeting Workspaces: Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extentsions\60\Template\LangID\MWS\XML
    For example, if the English (United States) language version of Windows SharePoint Services is installed on the server, the SharePoint Team Site site template is located in the following folder:
    • Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extentsions\60\Template\1033\STS\XML
  2. Open the Onet.xml file that is in the XML folder associated with that site template.
  3. Locate the Project Title tag, and then add the DisableWebDesignFeatures attribute.

    The following is an example of the Project Title tag with the added attribute: 
    <Project Title="Team Web Site" ListDir="Lists" xmlns:ows="Microsoft SharePoint" DisableWebDesignFeatures=wdfopensite>
  4. Restart Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS).
Users who try to open a SharePoint site that is based on the site template that has the DisableWebDesignFeatures=wdfopensite attribute configured will receive the following message: This web site has been configured to disallow editing with FrontPage. Contact your web site administrator for more information.
Note: These steps will disable authoring for Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 only. Users who have Microsoft FrontPage 2002 or Microsoft FrontPage 2000 can still open the Web site.

REFERENCES

For additional information about this issue in Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

831612 Considerations that apply when you use FrontPage 2003 to edit SharePoint Portal Server 2003 sites



For a more detailed explanation of this issue in the context of Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/office/office2003/maintain/fp03sps.mspx

Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:6/17/2004
Keywords:kbinfo KB838117 kbAudITPRO
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