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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook

You're reading from  Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849681087
Pages 288 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Peter Serzo Peter Serzo
Profile icon Peter Serzo

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Upgrading and Configuring SharePoint 2010 Service Applications Farm Governance Site Administration Monitoring and Reporting Search Security Administration: Users and Groups Content Management Social Architecture Backup and Restore Performance Monitoring

Disabling social features for a user


One of the key features of SharePoint 2010 is social components. These components are enabled by default. However, we do not always want users adding tags, using the Note Board and other social features. Organizations might need to turn them off for a particular user or even a group.

Take the case where an organization has a site set up for their vendors to use and exchange information. It may not make sense, from a business perspective, for the users of this site to be tagging items and using the I Like It feature. They are providing information to an organization through the extranet site. They are not looking to do things like rate the information on the site.

In a case like this, the social features can be disabled for that group. In this recipe, we will see how to accomplish this.

Getting ready

You must have farm-level administrative permissions to the Central Administration site.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Open the Central Administration screen and click Application...

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