How to disable SharePoint designer for a Web Application/Site in production farm – SharePoint 2010

Opening SharePoint designer in production farm is generally not recommended because of huge performance hit. A power user having access to edit pages, open pages in designer may start SharePoint designer in production farm that may result in lot of performance hit. This post describes the steps how you can disable SharePoint designer for a particular web application in your production farm.

Step1: Browse SharePoint Central Administration and go to Application Management

Step2: Click on Manage Web Applications link

Step3: Select a particular web application for which SharePoint designer need to be disabled and then click on General setting drop down menu

Site collection administrator can also disable the SharePoint designer setting from the Site Settings page as shown below

Step4: Click on SharePoint Designer from the General settings menu, uncheck the checkbox “Enable SharePoint Designer” as shown below

SharePoint designer can be enabled/disable by checking the “Enable SharePoint Designer” check box.

Once SharePoint designer is disabled for the web application, a user would see following message when trying to edit the page in SharePoint designer

How to Change Service Applications for a Web Application – SharePoint 2010

A Web application can be connected to the default set of service applications or to a custom set of service applications. You can change the set of service applications that a Web application is connected to at any time. There are two ways you can change the service applications 1) by using either the “Service Connections” option or 2) by going to “Configure Service Application Association” page in Central Administration.

Steps for both ways are as follows:-

    

    1)  Using “Service Connections” options

Step1: Browse SharePoint Central Administration and go to Application Management

Step2: Click on Manage Web Applications link

Step3: Select a particular web application for which service connection need to be changed and then click on Service Connections icon in top command actions menu

Step4: Select Custom option from the drop down, and choose the required service applications that need to be associated to the selected Web Application

2)  Using “Configure Service Application Association” page in Central Administration

Step1: Browse SharePoint Central Administration and go to Application Management

Step2: Click on “Configure service application association” link under Service Applications section

Step3: Click on a particular web application link for which service connection need to be changed

Step4: Select Custom option from the drop down, and choose the required service applications that need to be associated to the selected Web Application