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How to lock and unlock a site collection?
Using SharePoint Central Admin This is the easiest way to lock/unlock a site collection. Go to SharePoint Central Admin –> Application Management –> Site Collections –> and click on Configure Quotas and Locks This will take you to the configure Quotas and lock page, change the site collection which you want to lock or unlock.
When the content storage limit that is specified in the quota template is reached, the site collection is locked automatically until the storage limit quota has been increased or some content has been removed. For more information, see Create, edit, and delete quota templates in SharePoint Server.
How to request more storage quota in SharePoint?
Go to the Site Settings page. Under Site Collection Administration, select Storage Metrics. Select Request more quota in the upper right. This sends a storage request email to the global and SharePoint admins in the organization.
On the Site Collection Quotas and Locks page, in the Site Lock Information section, select one of the following options: Not locked to unlock the site collection and make it available to users. Adding content prevented to prevent users from adding new content to the site collection. Updates and deletions are still allowed.
Check Lock Status for All Site Collections in SharePoint You can Navigate to: Central Administration > Application Management > Configure Quotas and Locks to get lock status. Get Lock status with STSADM stsadm -o getsitelock -URL http://sharepoint.crescent.com Retrieve Site lock status with
What happens when I try to access a locked site?
That means that when a user tries to access that locked site they will be redirected to the URL that you provided at the tenant level. This could be helpful to provide instructions or further info for anyone letting them know that the site they were trying to access has been locked.