on share point, i got message "We apologize for the inconvenience, but we've made OneDrive and sites read-only while we do some maintenance" since 2 days and till this moment i cannot add or edit any data in my site?

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on share point, i got message "We apologize for the inconvenience, but we've made OneDrive and sites read-only while we do some maintenance" since 2 days and till this moment i cannot add or edit any data in my site?

Ayman Tolba (EGR) 25

when I tried to access my site on SharePoint, I got a message "This site is read-only at the administrator's request" and I cannot add or edit any data since 2 days.

please advice how can i solve this issue ?

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Tasadduq Burney 9,056 MVP Volunteer Moderator

Have you checked with your SharePoint site administrator?. They might have made some changes or put restrictions in place for a specific purpose. So, shooting them an email or giving them a call should be your initial course of action.

If you have the appropriate permissions, take a peek at the site settings and permissions. Double-check if your user account or the group you belong to has been granted read-only access. Sometimes, permissions can get a bit wonky, and a simple adjustment might do the trick.

TNTI Admin 0 Reputation points

2023-07-17T06:44:31.1033333+00:00

"Sometimes, permissions can get a bit wonky, and a simple adjustment might do the trick." - I have the same issue since 2021 and no one at Microsoft could help us. Thus, I am paying but not using both OneDrive for business and SharePoint. All diagnostic tools either crashed when trying to generate the report or just reported nothing useful. Three different MS teams approached to the topic plus a local MS partner. All failed to even determine what was and still is the problem.

The only suggestion I got was to recreate the whole tenant under a different name and move everything there. Really, the only thing which MS can do is to order the customer to GFY and spend customer's time on dealing with a problem formerly created by MS itself.

The root cause seems to be connected with AZURE (ENTRA = sick!) trial period, after which, some access details were corrupted. Since then, no one on our side, and even the MS side, can unblock it.

Last words: please, please, do not use adjectives like wonky and do not state that "a simple adjustment" might do the trick. Fancy words are not a solution, and there is no such thing as a simple adjustment with MS services, especially when even Microsoft engineers cannot solve the "simple" problem with resetting access rights to specific tenant services.

My suggestion to everyone is to avoid using MS online tools on trial unless you are sure you will buy it or you are sure that you can revert all the changes you did using a trial version of the service, before the trial period will finish.

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on share point, i got message "We apologize for the inconvenience, but we've made OneDrive and sites read-only while we do some maintenance" since 2 days and till this moment i cannot add or edit any data in my site?

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