{"id":763,"date":"2013-01-21T16:30:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrencoupland.com\/blog\/?p=763"},"modified":"2013-01-21T16:42:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:42:51","slug":"wss3-site-is-read-only-or-permissions-are-not-working-even-for-site-administrators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrencoupland.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/wss3-site-is-read-only-or-permissions-are-not-working-even-for-site-administrators\/","title":{"rendered":"WSS3 Site is read-only or permissions are not working even for site administrators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>What you may be experiencing:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the sites permissions don&#8217;t appear to be working \/ broken<\/li>\n<li>site administrators \/ contributors can\u2019t make changes<\/li>\n<li>unable to restore a copy of the site<\/li>\n<li>no errors are being reporting in any of the servers log files<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Cause:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A failed backup usually causes this issue to occur, before a backup of your site is taken it \u00a0is temporarily placed into a read-only state \/ locked state, if the backup fails the site is not unlocked for normal day-to-day use<\/p>\n<p><em>Resolution:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are two ways in which to remove the read-only sitelock<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Using Central Adminstration<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Goto &#8216;Central Administration&#8217; on your WSS3.0 server<br \/>\nSelect &#8216;Application Management&#8217;<br \/>\nUnder &#8216;SharePoint Site Management &gt; Site collection quotas and locks&#8217;<br \/>\nUsing the drop down \u201cSite Collection\u201d move through each site and check the \u201cLock status for this site\u201d<br \/>\nAny site showing locked change it \u201cNot locked\u201d and click ok<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Using stsadm<\/span><\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: text; gutter: true\">stsadm -o setsitelock -url http:\/\/server_name -lock none<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What you may be experiencing: the sites permissions don&#8217;t appear to be working \/ broken site administrators \/ contributors can\u2019t make changes unable to restore a copy of the site no errors are being reporting in any of the servers log files Cause: A failed backup usually causes this issue to occur, before a backup [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[54,52,51],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wss3-2","tag-backups","tag-sharepoint-services","tag-wss3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrencoupland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrencoupland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrencoupland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrencoupland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrencoupland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrencoupland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrencoupland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrencoupland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrencoupland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrencoupland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}