SharePoint 2013 sites in read-only mode. When I browsed the site I got the following message: “We apologize for any inconvenience, but we’ve made the site read only while we’re making some improvements.”
On further investigation I noticed that the nightly backup of this specific site collection did not complete successfully”. When you backup a Site, SharePoint places the site in read-only mode. But since my backup hanged the site never got out the read-only mode.
When you check the site in the Site Collection Quota and Locks Screen you’ll find all options greyed out:
Luckily since the April 2013 CU update for SharePoint 2013 we now have the SpsiteAdministration.ClearMaintenanceMode method. So we can clear the flag with the flowing two lines:
and your site is out of maintance mode again!
On further investigation I noticed that the nightly backup of this specific site collection did not complete successfully”. When you backup a Site, SharePoint places the site in read-only mode. But since my backup hanged the site never got out the read-only mode.
When you check the site in the Site Collection Quota and Locks Screen you’ll find all options greyed out:
Luckily since the April 2013 CU update for SharePoint 2013 we now have the SpsiteAdministration.ClearMaintenanceMode method. So we can clear the flag with the flowing two lines:
$site = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPSiteAdministration(‘http://intranet.demo.local’)
$site.ClearMaintenanceMode()
and your site is out of maintance mode again!
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