Practical SharePoint 2010 Branding and Customization

Required Access Levels

For your SharePoint design build-out, you need enhanced permissions on the server and on the site. You'll need to provide different levels of access depending on the type of branding that you'll be doing. These security permissions are broken down into the following roles:

• Server Administrator (AKA, member of the Local Administrators group on the server): You have full rights to configure, add, edit, and delete files on the server. This role is primarily granted when you have your own server and want to easily add and change files on the server. In most cases, this also gives you the highest level of privileges within central administration because SharePoint automatically adds a group called “BUILTIN\Administrators” to ...