Prevent site owners from creating subsites in SharePoint 2010
If your users are naughty enough and you want to keep them from adding new sub sites for a specific web application. Just follow the steps below: This is specially useful when the naughty users are site owners such as in case of My Sites. 1. From Central Administration, Go to “Manage Web Application” screen. 2. Select a web application and click the “Permission Policy” button from the ribbon. 3. A screen will pop up with all existing permission levels. 4. Select “Add Permission Policy Level” link from the screen. 5. On “Add Permission Policy Level” screen, name the permission level appropriately. 6. Under Site Permissions category, select the “Deny” option for “Create Subsites” permission and save it. 7. You will see a new Permission Policy Level in the list of existing ones. 8. From the ribbon, click “User Policy” button. 9. A screen will pop up with all existing user policies. 10. Click “Add Users” link from Policy For Web Application screen. 11. A wizard will open, allowing you to s...