Tuesday, November 22, 2022

How to set sharepoint site to read only

How to set sharepoint site to read only?




 set sharepoint site to read only is required while doing the Migration from On-premise to online.

The steps are same for all: 2010, 2013 and 2016.  

We can achieve this in  3 options as shown below.

Through Central Administration:

  1. Go to Central Admin > Application Management > Configure quotas and locks.
  2. Select the site collection which should be read-only and select the “Read-Only” radio button. Click OK.
  3. Now, browse the site collection and we can see a message on the top saying, “This site is read-only at the farm administrator’s request”.
  4. when the site is set to read-only,user can only view the document or download a copy of it.

    Through Database:

    1. Select the content database and go to its Properties.
    2. Click on Options menu from the left-hand side of the window and under the "State" section, set “Database Read-Only” to “True”, as shown in the image below.
    3. Now, the content database is in read-only mode.

    Through PowerShell:

    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.

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