Wednesday, August 15, 2012

SharePoint 2013 permission levels vs SharePoint 2010 permission levels

If you're wondering what's changed in SharePoint 2013 permissions, don't hold your breathe.  Not much.  Well, not much on the surface at least.  There's a whole new set of security event handlers tied into user and group management, but in terms of security permissions in a browser, there's little difference between SharePoint 2013 and 2010.

I wanted to provide a breakdown of all the SharePoint 2013 Permission Levels and compare them to 2010 to see if anything has changed.  Only one real change:  Override Check Out is now Override List Behaviors.

SP2010 Override Check Out Discard or check in a document which is checked out to another user.
SP2013 Override List Behaviors Discard or check in a document which is checked out to another user, and change or override settings which allow users to read/edit only their own items


For a full list of each version side by side:

SharePoint 2013 SharePoint 2010
List Permissions List Permissions
Manage Lists Manage Lists
Override List Behaviors  Override Check Out
Add Items Add Items
Edit Items Edit Items
Delete Items Delete Items
View Items View Items
Approve Items Approve Items
Open Items Open Items
View Versions View Versions
Delete Versions Delete Versions
Create Alerts Create Alerts
View Application Pages View Application Pages
Site Permissions Site Permissions
Manage Permissions Manage Permissions
View Web Analytics Data View Web Analytics Data
Create Subsites Create Subsites
Manage Web Site Manage Web Site
Add and Customize Pages Add and Customize Pages
Apply Themes and Borders Apply Themes and Borders
Apply Style Sheets Apply Style Sheets
Browse Directories Browse Directories
Use Self-Service Site Creation Use Self-Service Site Creatio
View Pages View Pages
Enumerate Permissions Enumerate Permissions
Browse User Information Browse User Information
Manage Alerts Manage Alerts
Use Remote Interfaces Use Remote Interfaces
Use Client Integration Features Use Client Integration Features
Open Open
Edit Personal User Information Edit Personal User Information
Personal Permissions Personal Permissions
Manage Personal Views Manage Personal Views
Add/Remove Personal Web Parts Add/Remove Personal Web Parts
Update Personal Web Parts Update Personal Web Parts

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the comparison. Aren't these actually *permissions*, instead of *permission levels*? Important difference.

Unknown said...

You are correct. The combination of these permissions define a permission level such as Full Control or Contribute

Anonymous said...

Understood. Thanks for the clarification. :)