User Rights
User Rights
SharePoint Team Services from Microsoft and Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions use roles to manage user rights. Each user is a member of at least one role that possesses corresponding rights. You can modify the rights assigned to a role, create a new role, or delete an unused role. For more information about roles and rights, see the SharePoint Team Services Administrator's Guide.
The following table describes the rights you can assign to users by posting commands to the server through administrative protocol.
| Name | Description | Roles included by default | Dependent rights |
|---|---|---|---|
| AuthorDiscussions | Grants permission to participate in discussions. SharePoint Team Services only; not available with FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions. | admin, advauthor, author, collab | CloseDiscussions, ViewDiscussions |
| AuthorLists | Grants permission to add new content to an existing list. SharePoint Team Services only; not available with FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions. | admin, advauthor, author | ViewLists |
| AuthorPages | Grants permission to create, edit, or delete HTML pages and/or directories. Note that this right allows users to apply a theme, link a style sheet, or apply a border to a page in a Web site. This right also allows users to delete views, such as those used for lists. | admin, advauthor, author | ViewPages |
| BorderWeb | Grants permission to apply a border to a Web site. | admin, advauthor | AuthorPages, ViewPages |
| CloseDiscussions | Grants permission to mark discussion items as "resolved." SharePoint Team Services only; not available with FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions. | admin, advauthor, author, collab | AuthorDiscussions, ViewDiscussions |
| ConfigureLists | Grants permission to create or design new or existing lists. SharePoint Team Services only; not available with FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions. | admin | AuthorLists, AuthorPages, ViewLists |
| ConfigureRoles | Grants permission to create, delete, and modify roles, including adding users to the roles and specifying which rights are assigned to a role. | admin | AuthorPages, ViewPages |
| CreateAccounts | Grants permission to create local machine accounts (potentially necessary to give new users access to a Web site). | admin | ConfigureRoles |
| ManageDiscussions | Grants permission to add, edit, remove, and resolve discussion items for a virtual server. SharePoint Team Services only; not available with FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions. | admin | AuthorDiscussions, CloseDiscussions, ViewDiscussions |
| ManageLists | Grants permission to add, edit, or remove lists, irrespective of the per-list properties. SharePoint Team Services only; not available with FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions. | admin | AuthorLists, AuthorPages, ConfigureLists, ViewLists |
| ManageServerHealth | Grants permission to run the server health features for a virtual server. | admin | None |
| ManageSubscriptions | Grants permission to add, edit, or remove subscriptions for a virtual server. SharePoint Team Services only; not available with FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions. | admin | Subscribe, ViewDiscussions, ViewPages |
| ManageSubweb | Grants permission to create, rename, or remove subwebs. Note that in order to delete a subweb, the user must have permissions on the subweb itself and on the root Web site. | admin | AuthorPages, ViewPages |
| ManageUsageAnalysis | Grants permission to modify the usage analysis settings for a virtual server. Note that any user who can open the Web site in FrontPage 2002 can run the usage analysis reports. | admin | AuthorPages, ViewPages |
| RecalcWeb | Grants permission to recalculate a Web site. | admin, advauthor | AuthorPages, ViewPages |
| SetSourceControl | Grants permission to set the source control database. | admin | AuthorPages, ViewPages |
| StylesheetWeb | Grants permission to apply a style sheet to the entire Web site. | admin, advauthor | AuthorPages, ViewPages |
| Subscribe | Grants permission to subscribe to documents using Web subscriptions. SharePoint Team Services only; not available with FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions. | admin, advauthor, author, collab | ViewDiscussions, ViewPages |
| ThemeWeb | Grants permission to apply a theme to a Web site. | admin, advauthor | AuthorPages, ViewPages |
| ViewDiscussions | Grants permission to read Web document discussion items. SharePoint Team Services only; not available with FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions. | All | ViewPages |
| ViewLists | Grants permission to read lists. SharePoint Team Services only; not available with FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions. | All | ViewPages |
| ViewPages | Grants permission to browse pages in the Web site, including pages with FrontPage components. | All | None |