Why does it say Deny "add and customize pages" under my permissions as a site owner and what can I do to edit pages?

Question

Please provide guidance with the understanding that this is an “on-premise” SharePoint farm.

Greetings, I was recently tasked with transforming a classic SharePoint page from 2010 into a new modern page using SharePoint 2019 on premise. I am working in a sandbox environment and under my site permissions I see "deny - add and customize pages" when I am a new site admin and listed owner. I am currently not able to edit any pages for my new SharePoint site collection as the edit button does not even appear on any of the pages. I also do not seem to have access to the "Admin" option when I click the waffle button on the top left (Only choices shown there are One Drive and SharePoint. Also, the only site within the VM I seem to have access to is the SP portal site that I am tasked with editing.

Any advice for a solution and idea of the cause of the possible restriction?

Answer 1

Hi @Tevon2.0 ,

Thanks for the post.

According to the research and test, you could enable custom script by using PowerShell command.

1. Login to your SharePoint Farm SharePoint 2019 On-Premise
2. Open SharePoint 2019 Management Shell as administrator
3. Execute the following PowerShell command: (Get-SPSite -Identity "https://your-host/sites/modern-site").DenyPermissionsMask = [Microsoft.SharePoint.SPBasePermissions]::EmptyMask

For more information: Activate Custom Script for SharePoint 2019

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I hope I can offer you a better experience next time if I have a chance to work with you again.

Yours faithfully,
Renjie Sun

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