Manage permissions through policy (Office SharePoint Server)

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Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Sometimes, you might want different users or groups to have different levels of access to sites within Web applications. For example, a financial company with both banking and investment branches might want to limit the access of its investment branch to resources in its banking branch for fiduciary reasons.

To manage permissions policies for Web applications, open the Policy for Web Application page:

  1. On the top navigation bar, click Application Management.

  2. On the Application Management page, in the Application Security section, click Policy for Web application.

What do you want to do?

  • Add users and define policy

  • Edit permissions for user policies

  • Delete user policies

Add users and define policy

  1. On the Policy for Web Application page, click Add Users.

  2. On the Add Users page, on the Web Application menu in the Web Application section, if the Web application for which you want to set policy for users is not selected, click Change Web Application.

    • In the Select Web Application dialog box, click the Web application for which you want to set policy for users.

  3. On the Add Users page, in the Zones box in the Select the Zone section, select the zone for which you want to set policy.

  4. Click Next.

  5. In the Choose Users section, in the Users box, add the user names of the users for whom you want set policy.

  6. In the Choose Permissions section, select the permissions that you want users to have. The permissions are as follows:

    • Full Control - Has full control

    • Full Read - Has full read-only access

    • Deny Write - Has no write access

    • Deny All - Has no access

  7. If you want the specified accounts of users to behave as system accounts, select the Account operates as System check box.

    Any changes made by a system account are logged as made by the system account instead of the actual user account.

  8. Click Finish.

Edit permissions for user policies

  • On the Policy for Web Application page, select the check boxes for the user policies that you want to edit, and then click Edit Permissions of Selected Users.

Delete user policies

  1. On the Policy for Web Application page, select the check boxes for the user policies that you want to delete, and then click Delete Selected Users.

  2. Click OK in the message box confirming that you want to proceed with the deletion.