Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Administrator's Companion

Understanding Security Policy Files

The easiest way to learn to read security policy files is by looking at existing security policy files. In this section, you will get a closer look at the custom SharePoint security policy files WSS_Minimal and WSS_Medium. You can find them by looking at the policyFile attribute of the <trustLevel> element of a SharePoint Web.config file. By default, the SharePoint policy files are located in the CONFIG folder of the SharePoint hive: [drive letter]:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12.

The SecurityClasses and CodeGroup Sections

The first interesting bit of a security policy file is the <SecurityClasses> section, which contains a collection of <SecurityClass> elements. <SecurityClass> ...