How to lock down SharePoint Designer 2010

As we all know – SharePoint Designer is free tool from Microsoft, so any users in the organization can download designer and start using tool to make the changes directly to any SharePoint sites if they have designer access, Challenges comes in governance part of the SharePoint Designer usage. In SharePoint 2010 – admin have more control over what are the SharePoint Designer functionalities lock down and on which level of the site (web application, site collection level)

Here are some good reference links which talks about how to lock down designer access from SharePoint 2010.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mcsnoiwb/archive/2010/07/01/locking-down-sharepoint-designer-2010.aspx

http://www.thesanitypoint.com/archive/2011/09/22/governing-sharepoint-designer.aspx  

Different new features into SharePoint Designer 2010: http://www.endusersharepoint.com/EUSP2010/2010/03/19/introduction-to-sharepoint-designer-2010/