SharePoint Musings

I've stumbled upon an interesting issue this past week while working for a client and wanted to share just because I almost pulled my hair out trying to figure it out. I've provisioned a site collection with about a handful of sub-sites, each with their own unique permission structure (Owners, Members, Visitors, etc). I was surprised to find out that users that were part of Owners group could not create sub sites and encountered Access Denied error each time, like the one below. A bit baffling, especially since Owners SharePoint security group has Full Control rights. After studying the ULS log it seemed as if everyone except for the top level Site Owners (and Site Collection Administrators) did not have rights to Device Channels list. A Device Channel basically controls how content is rendered within the Publishing Infrastructure in SharePoint 2013. For more on Device Channels please go here: Intro to Device Channels Solution To remedy this, I added Restricted Rea