How to disable FrontPage 2003 authoring for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0

If you are a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 server administrator, and if you want to prevent users from opening a Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 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.

To disable the authoring feature, use one of the following methods.

Method 1

Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 includes site permissions that you can use to enable or to disable Web application authoring.

To use Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 to disable site permissions, follow these steps:

1. Start SharePoint Central Administration.
2. On the Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 Central Administration site, click Application Management, and then click User Permissions for Web Application under Application Security.
3. On the User Permissions for Web Application page, click Add and Customize Pages - Add, change, or delete HTML pages or Web Part Pages, and edit the Web site using a Windows SharePoint Services-compatible editor under Site Permissions, and then click Save.

Method 2

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 2.0 site template. To do this, follow these steps:

1. On the server that is running Windows SharePoint Services 2.0, 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 on which Microsoft Windows is installed, and where LangID is the language version of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 that is installed on the server.
   • SharePoint Team Sites:
     Drive:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extentsions\60\Template\LangID\STS\XML
     Note The Onet.xml files for Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 are in the following location:
     C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\SiteTemplates\<Service>\xml
     Note<Service> is a placeholder for Windows SharePoint Service that is installed on the server.
   • 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 2.0 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 that is associated with that site template.
3. Locate the Project Title tag, and then add the DisableWebDesignFeatures attribute.
   
   The following example shows the Project Title tag together 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 Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 site that is based on the site template that has the DisableWebDesignFeatures=wdfopensite attribute configured will receive the following message: Note These steps will disable authoring for FrontPage 2003 only. Users who have Microsoft FrontPage 2002 or Microsoft FrontPage 2000 can still open the Web site.

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