Making a sharepoint site (2007) read only

Question

I am getting ready to perform a migration of SharePoint 2007 to 2010, and during the migration horus, i will want to prevent anyone form adding content anywhere, but yet I would like for people to read the content. Is there a way to make the sharepoint 2007 site read only?

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 04 '11 at 20:00

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Try:

   stsadm -o setsitelock -url http://server_name -lock noaccess

That will help you set the site collection to read-only

answered Mar 04 '11 at 20:00

SandBox

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That command will actually stop ALL access to the site. To make it properly read-only, change the last parameter to `readonly` (i.e. `stsadm -o setsitelock -url http://server_name -lock readonly`) – Captain Toad Feb 07 '18 at 15:18

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 26 '16 at 15:20

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Its very simple:

Central Administration > Application Management > Site Collection Quotas and Locks. Then choose 'Read Only'.

answered Jul 26 '16 at 15:20

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score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 09 '11 at 22:13

If you are performing a database attach upgrade, you could set the databases to read-only through SQL Management Studio. When SharePoint databases are set to read-only, SharePoint will automatically security-trim all sites in those databases to only allow for viewing the content.

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 13 '10 at 06:00

I'm not sure if there is a way to do it in the UI or through stsadm, but there is a readonly property of the SPSiteAdministration object.

SPSiteAdministration siteAdmin = new SPSiteAdministration(siteUrl/guid);
siteAdmin.ReadOnly = true;
siteAdmin.Dispose();

Making a sharepoint site (2007) read only

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