“Additions to this Web site have been blocked”
Another day, another challenge in administering a SharePoint 2010 environment! Here’s the scenario…
Service Pack 1 was applied to an RTM instance of a SharePoint 2010 environment. The main site collection was behaving normally and was not recently restored prior to the application of SP1. Upon the successful application, users noticed they could no longer add content. Investigation showed the farm administrator could no longer edit permissions or add subsites. All security definitions seemed to be in place and there were no policies defined that would alter security. Heh?
Upon trying to change the site collection administrator (in Central Administration), the farm administrator received an “Additions to this Web site have been blocked” error message. This message was actually a very good hint as we then immediately looked at the site quotes and locks. Sure enough, the site collection was set to read-only! No idea how this came to be but once we removed the lock all was good again. Here’s how…
· Go to Central Administration -> Application Management -> Configure Quotas and Locks
· Set the Site Lock Information to "Not Lock" (it had been set to “Site Collection is set to Read-only (blocks additions, updates, and deletions)”