Manage Web Parts page authorization (Office SharePoint Server)
Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007
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Topic Last Modified: 2007-12-12
Authorization is the process of determining what a user is permitted to do. Permission is authorization to perform specific actions, such as viewing pages.
Web applications in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server can be composed of multiple layers of site collections, Web pages, and Web page content such as Web Parts, as shown in this image.
Structure of a Web application
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Different permissions can be granted these different layers, as needed.
Web sites are themselves securable objects to which permissions can be assigned. You can configure subsites to inherit permissions from a parent site or create unique permissions for a particular site. Inheriting permissions is the easiest way to manage a group of Web sites.
Web Parts pages can also inherit permissions from the parent Web sites. However, you can break this inheritance for any securable object at a lower level in the hierarchy by editing the permissions (creating a unique permission assignment) on that object.
For more information on site and content security and levels of inheritance, see Plan site and content security (Office SharePoint Server).
Task requirements
The following is required to perform the procedures for this task.
- Administrator privileges on a server computer that has one of the server products in the Office 2007 release installed.
To manage Web Parts page authorization, you perform the following procedures.