Office documents open in read-only mode in Sharepoint

Office documents open in read-only mode in SharePoint

Issue: I have a SharePoint 2013 installation and clients with IE 11 and Office 2013. When clients navigate to a document library and click to open an Office document, the document opens in read-only mode with an information bar stating "We opened this document read-only from the server" and with a button to enable editing.

Cause: there could be many reasons for the issue like Not having proper permission to user to Edit DOC in site, IE compatibility issues, Client system issues.

Solution: I am providing the solutions below to solve the problem. Ensure one should resolve the issue.

Solution 1:Ensure the user is having a proper permissions on the site to edit the documents at least the contribute.

Solution 2:Ensure the IE is in compatible with the SharePoint and no issues with the IE.IE11 having some compatible issues with the SharePoint so I would recommend to check with other browsers.

Solution 3:please follow the steps below in client computer to resolve the issue.

1.    On the client computer experiencing the issue click on "RUN" then type "RegEdit".

2.    go to this path HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Common\Internet

Note:For sharepoint 2013 the path is 15.0
 

3.    Right click and create new "DWORD" entry and give it a name of "FSSHTTPOff"

4.    Double click the new entry and enter 1 for the value.

5.    Once done you need to reboot the computer.

 


I hope the above information will help you to resolve the issue, in case of any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.

SharePoint 2013 RTM Support has ended

SharePoint 2013 RTM Support has ended  

Please be noted  that starting April 14th only SharePoint 2013 farms with SP1 are supported.

SharePoint 2013 servers/farms without SP1 are no longer supported and hot fixes released beginning with April 2015 cannot be installed on SharePoint 2013 servers without SP1.

Article from MS below:

 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle?p1=16652

 


I hope the above information will help you to resolve the issue, in case of any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.

permissions needed to administrate SharePoint Server

permissions needed to administrate SharePoint Server 

The below are the permissions that required to user to administer the SharePoint farm.

1.   Local Administrator rights

2.   Farm Administrator rights

3.   Shell Administrator rights

Local Administrator rights are required in order to work with objects that require that right (such as creating IIS sites or importing the Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell module).

Farm Administrator rights are required to perform various functions on the farm. Various APIs within SharePoint have an explicit farm administrator rights check.

Shell Administrator rights gives you additional rights on the databases in use by the farm so you can operate directly against them (working with databases via Central Administration is done via the Farm Admin account).

 


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Regional settings in SharePoint

Regional settings in SharePoint the regional settings are determined by the regional settings of the computer that is running the Microsoft Dynamics NAV Windows client. SharePoint Server 2010 has the following regional Settings.
To change the regional settings for a SharePoint site Open the site on which you want to change the regional settings. On the Site Actions menu, choose Site Settings. On the Site Settings page, under Site Administration, choose Regional settings. On the Regional Settings page, select the settings that you want for this site, and then choose the OK button

 


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The Web server at "Web site collection URL" does not appear to have Microsoft SharePoint Foundation installed

The Web server at "Web site collection URL" does not appear to have Microsoft SharePoint Foundation installed

Issue: The Web server at "Web site collection URL" does not appear to have Microsoft SharePoint Foundation installed

Cause: The Web server at "Web site collection URL" does not appear to have Microsoft SharePoint Foundation installed

Solution: Please follow the steps below to resolve this problem, enable the client integration. To do this, follow these steps:

1.   Start SharePoint 2010 Central Administration, and then click Security.

2.   Click Specify authentication providers.

3.   If the Web application in the Web Application list is not the same application that you want to open in SharePoint Designer 2010, click Web Application on the Change Web Application list.

4.   On the Select Web Application page, click the name of the Web application that you want to open.

5.   Under Zone, Click Default to open the Edit Authentication page.

6.   Under Enable Client Integration, click Yes, and then click Save.

  
I hope the above information will help you to resolve the issue, in case of any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as well as resolves your issues, Thank you.