In some portal scenarios you might want to have only webmaster(s) manage the layout of the site. So your goal is to avoid that a registered user change it. With Webparts you might build portal that match this scenario like this: Add to you web.config:

<system.web>
    ...
    <webParts>
        <personalization>
            <authorization>
                <allow roles="webmasters" verbs="enterSharedScope"/>
            </authorization>
        </personalization>
    </webParts>
    ...
</system.web>

This configuration set that only users with the role webmaster might change the layout.

Then you might place a WebPartPageMenu control on your site. This control is listing all the personalisation to the webpart system you might do as a logged in user. In the case of a user in the role of webmasters, the WebPartPageMenu will have one of it entries set to: Show Share view. You can select this entry and then Design Page Layout to be able to design the layout of the page for the user the anonymous users.

I am reading through the different blog I subscribed to and saw that interesting entry. I have so many discussions at work concerning Free Software compared to Microsoft way of doing business with Not Free Software. Thats Life, real Life. Another way of seeing the real life is pointed by an opened letter from Clemens Vasters, here. So true.

About FREE software ...

I am currently working on our whole development process and I found this article really interesting. Thanks Dirk for the pointer to the article.

The development process of Windows Server 2003

Msdn published an interesting article concerning the new XML possibilities of the IDE Visual Studio 2005.

<u>Summary</u>: