Monday, October 13, 2008

Prevent Content Deletion on SharePoint Sites

Log in as Service account litware\spadmin Go to Top level site>Site settings>Advanced permissions>Settings>Permission Levels













Click on Contribute













Uncheck checkbox Delete Items & remove "delete" word from description













Scroll down and click on submit Go to Site settings>People and Groups>New>Add Users
Add litware\user1 with Contribute permission
Sign in as different user
Sign in as litware\user1 Go to Shared Documents and created a word document "test" Delete option is not present in drop down We upload an image to Shared Documents Delete option is not present in drop down












Log in as service account litware\spadmin again Delete option is present in drop down list


Note: For new users the permission will be effective after adding them to the site but the existing users need to be removed and added to site again. Same procedure can be repeated for other Users/Groups




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