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April 8th, 2009

What You Need to Know About SharePoint Designer(Now That It's Free)

Raymond Mitchell,Wes Preston, and Lori Neff

Meeting # 54.5

Agenda

• Quick Introductions• What is SharePoint Designer?• Around the Pyramid• So now it is free..• Q&A

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IntroductionsRaymond Mitchellhttp://www.iwkid.com

Wes Prestonhttp://www.idubbs.com

Lori Neffhttp://www.BrandingSharePoint.com

• Work for Inetium’s IW Team

• Frequent participants at the MNSPUG

• On the LearnSPD Team

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Introductions

• New site launching this week

• Resource for people new to SharePoint Designer

• Upcoming Webcasts on all things SharePoint Designer

http://www.LearnSPD.com

What is SharePoint Designer?

What is SharePoint Designer?

What is SharePoint Designer?

What is SharePoint Designer?• Member of the Office Platform

• Rich-client for configuring SharePoint Sites outside of the browser

• Latest version of FrontPage• Leverages FrontPage Server Extensions and SharePoint Web Services• Expanded support for ASP.NET

What is SharePoint Designer?

SharePoint Designer Roadmap

SharePoint Designer 2010ish

Visual Studio 2010

Expression Web 3

Around the SPD Pyramid

The SPD Pyramid

The SPD Pyramid

Introducing… the SharePoint Designer Pyramid

CompositeApplication

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Workflow

SharePoint

Design & Branding

The SPD Pyramid

Design / Branding• Create and Apply Themes

• Create custom Master Pages to dramatically change SharePoint’s look and feel

• Advanced support for managing CSS

• Create custom Page Layouts for Publishing (WCM) Sites

The SPD Pyramid

Workflow• Automate processes associated with SharePoint Lists and Libraries

• Configure out of the box conditions and actions – no development required!

• Create or download custom conditions and actions to extend the out of the box capabilities

The SPD Pyramid

Composite Applications• Add and configure out of the box Web Parts and their connections

• Use the Data Form Web Part to surface business data and create advanced views

• Build “no-code” applications that bring together business data, SharePoint data, and workflow capabilities

So now SPD is free…

Now that SPD is free

Now that SPD is free

Now that SharePoint Designer is free…• Where do I get started?

Go Download it! http://www.microsoft.com/SPD

• What do I need to know?

What can SPD do? Hopefully this talk helped?Where can I learn more? http://www.LearnSPD.comHow do I CONTROL it?

Now that SPD is free

Locking down SharePoint Designer• Until your organization is familiar with SharePoint Designer you may want to lock down

your environment.

• Several options, complete details available here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner/archive/2008/11/25/locking-down-sharepoint-designer.aspx

Now that SPD is free

Locking down SharePoint Designer

SCOPE OPTION PERMISSIONS REQUIRED TO ENABLE OR DISABLE

At the server level per site definition

ONET.XML — Prevent all users from opening all sites created from a specific site definition (such as all team sites or all publishing sites) by modifying ONET.XML for that site definition.

Server administrator — You must have an administrator account on the server to modify this file.

Now that SPD is free

Locking down SharePoint Designer

SCOPE OPTION PERMISSIONS REQUIRED TO ENABLE OR DISABLE

At the Web application level for all users

Permissions in Central Administration — Prevent all users from opening or editing all sites in a Web application by removing the permissions in Central Administration.

Site Collection Administrator — You must be a Site Collection Administrator to add or remove permissions in Central Administration.

At the Web application level per user or group

Policy in Central Administration — Prevent specific users and groups from opening or editing all sites in a Web application by removing the permissions in Central Administration.

Site Collection Administrator — You must be a Site Collection Administrator to manage permission policies in Central Administration.

Now that SPD is free

Locking down SharePoint Designer

SCOPE OPTION PERMISSIONS REQUIRED TO ENABLE OR DISABLE

At the site level per user or group

Site permissions — Prevent specific users and groups from opening or editing sites at the site level by removing the permissions from their permission level. Site permissions cannot override permission settings in Central Administration.

Site owner — You must have the Manage Permissions permission to configure site permissions. In SharePoint Server 2007, by default only the Full Control and Manage Hierarchy permission levels include this permission.

At the site level per user or group (not a security feature)

Contributor Settings — Guide trusted users toward performing the right tasks in the right place by disabling features and UI in SharePoint Designer 2007. Contributor Settings cannot override permission settings at the site level or in Central Administration.

Site owner — You must have the Manage Permissions permission to turn Contributor Settings on or off. In SharePoint Server 2007, by default only the Full Control and Manage Hierarchy permission levels include this permission.

Now that SPD is free

Locking down SharePoint Designer

SCOPE OPTION PERMISSIONS REQUIRED TO ENABLE OR DISABLE

Per computer or per user

Group Policy — Use policy settings to disable menu commands and their corresponding toolbar buttons in the UI of Office programs, including SharePoint Designer. You can also disable keyboard shortcuts. Settings can be applied to a specific computer or user.

Windows administrator — You must be a member of the Domain Administrators security group, the Enterprise Administrators security group, or the Group Policy Creator Owners security group.

Now that SPD is free

Locking down SharePoint Designer• SharePoint Designer is a POWERFUL tool – make sure you are not just removing it from the

equation out of fear alone

• That said:• users need to be educated about customizing with SharePoint Designer• administrators need to know the implications of using SharePoint Designer on a site

and what it could mean for performance, environment stability, and future product upgrades

Q & A

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