This site is read only at the farm administrator's request.

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This site is read only at the farm administrator's request.

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Dear bestoffice744,

Good day! Thank you for posting to Microsoft Community. We are happy to help you

Based on your description, we understand that we encountered an error message: This site is read only at the site collection administrator's request.

According to my research, the farm administrator is primarily aimed at SharePoint Sever, not SharePoint Online. So I also want to make sure you're using SharePoint Sever.

If you are using SharePoint Sever, you can refer to the following suggestions:

If you have further questions, please understand that this query is outside of our support boundaries. For you to be assisted properly, please reach out to Questions - Microsoft Q&A; I am sure that our experts from that team can address your query effectively and accurately.

If you are using SharePoint Online, we found the following document similar to the error message you described, you can refer to the suggestions in this document: SharePoint or OneDrive read-only error messages - SharePoint | Microsoft Learn

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If you are still experiencing this error message, we would also like to know the following information:

Do you also encounter this error message when you visit other sites?
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Sincerely,

Tin | Microsoft Community Moderator

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