Securing Publishing Sites with Lockdown Mode

Using lockdown mode on published sites if greater security on these sites is a requirement. Additionally, if you applied the Publishing Portal site template, determine if lockdown mode is the desired configuration for these sites. If not, use the Stsadm.exe command-line tool to turn off lockdown mode.

Turn off lockdown mode for a site collection

stsadm -o deactivatefeature -url -filename ViewFormPagesLockDown\feature.xml

Turn on lockdown mode for a site collection

stsadm -o activatefeature -url -filename ViewFormPagesLockDown\feature.xml

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Anonymous said…

Stsadm.exe command line gives an error message as below:

Failed to find the XML file at location '12\Template\Features\ViewFormPagesLockD
ownfeature.xml'

any idea how can turn on lock mode?

May 2, 2012 at 9:24 PM

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