As a SharePoint architect or a SharePoint developer, you must have been thinking about the benefits/limitations of SharePoint apps a lot. I want to point out one of them today, which is very important: using custom webservices deployed to SharePoint inside apps. That is impossible and it is designed to be so due to the security architecture in the sharepoint app framework. I have read much about SharePoint apps (books, whitepapers, blog posts) and stumbled over these two contradictive statements:

There are much info about standard permission levels in SharePoint. Here is my visualization for that. Just a little bit easier to find out the right permission level. Enjoy:

Full Control (FullMask)

Design

Contribute

Read

Limited Access

Restricted Reader

Manage Hierarchy

Approve

ViewListItems

x

x

x

x

x

x

AddListItems

x

x

x

x

EditListItems

x

x

x

x

DeleteListItems

x

x

x

x

ApproveItems

x

x

OpenItems

x

x

x

x

x

x

ViewVersions

x

x

x

x

x

DeleteVersions

x

x

x

x

CancelCheckout

x

x

x

ManagePersonalViews

x

x

x

x

ManageLists

x

x

ViewFormPages

x

x

x

x

x

x

Open

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

ViewPages

x

x

x

x

x

x

AddAndCustomizePages

x

x

ApplyThemeAndBorder

x

ApplyStyleSheets

x

ViewUsageData

x

CreateSSCSite

x

x

x

x

x

ManageSubWebs

x

CreateGroups

ManagePermissions

x

BrowseDirectories

x

x

x

x

BrowseUserInfo

x

x

x

x

x

x

AddDelPrivateWebParts

x

x

x

x

UpdatePersonalWebParts

x

x

x

x

ManageWeb

x

UseClientIntegration

Want to hide my site link without disabling social features. Well, the simplest way to do it is to use css:

#mp1\_0\_0\_Anchor { display: none; }
```If you want to hide my profile instead, just hide #mp1\_0\_1\_Anchor:

#mp1_0_1_Anchor { display: none; }

.ms-MenuUIUL li[text=‘My Site’] { display: none;}

##### Disable the my profile feature An even better solution is maybe to disable the ability to change the profiles. [Just remove the permission to "user personalization..." for All authenticated users in User Profile Service](http://blog.libinuko.com/2010/10/10/sharepoint-2010-howto-disable-my-site-and-my-profile-link/).

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John — 2012-03-03