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We can make a SharePoint subsite to read-only by replacing all user and group permissions to the “Read” permission level.
- Navigate to the subsite >> Click on Site Settings >> Site Permissions.
- In the site permissions page, Leave all users and groups with “Read”, “View Only” or “Limited Access” rights and select the rest.
Go to Central Admin > Application Management > Configure quotas and locks. Select the site collection which should be read-only and select the “Read-Only” radio button. Click OK.
Lockdown Application Pages in SharePoint: Go to Site Settings >> Site collection features >> Activate/deactivate “Limited-access user permission lockdown mode” feature to restrict/allow anonymous users to access application pages.
How do I change a read only file to edit in OneNote?
You can set an entire OneNote section to be read-only, simply find the . ONE file in your file system with Windows Explorer, right-click it and set the permissions so that only one user has the authority to write but the other users have the ability to read. You can password protect a section (tab).
How to set site collection to read only in SharePoint 2013?
During a SharePoint migration we decided to set sites to read only to restrict any updates. How to set site collection to read only in SharePoint 2013? Usually making SharePoint 2013 site collections to read only is done at SharePoint Central administration site.
The only way to fix this is to restore backup of your site overriding locked site collection. This way the flag that is set to read only will be free by restore process and the site collection will be available again Just to make this clear for others who read this. You cannot fix this on SharePoint RTM with the above commands.
I do have a SharePoint (2013) site collection that is stuck in read only mode due to a backup that was either interrupted or didn’t terminated properly. I’m unable to unlock from :
No access to prevent users from accessing the site collection and its content. Users who attempt to access the site receive an error message. If you select Adding content prevented, Read-only (blocks additions, updates, and deletions), or No access, type a reason for the lock in the Additional lock information box.