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?

Tenia

Answer 1

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.

Noose

Answer 2

Try:

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

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

Hoehne

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) – Klenk

Answer 3

Its very simple:

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

Bulkhead

Answer 4

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();

Agrobiology