Site Collection stuck on ReadOnly Mode

Mai Omar Desouki — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 16:32:40 GMT

Ever did a Site Collection backup either from CA or PowerShell, and interrupted it for some reason! and found your site still on the read only. I faced this issue with a customer whom we decided to cancel the backup now and do it in later time. Interrupting it caused the site to remain for sometime in readonly, although we wrote the PowerShell to do unlock Set-SPSite -Identity "" -LockState Unlock Still the Site Collection was in ReadOnly mode. After investigation, we ran the ClearMaintenanceMode

$Admin =  new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPSiteAdministration('URL')
$Admin.ClearMaintenanceMode()

Now try to called it and check or confirm the value

$site.MaintenanceMode
True

And it was back to Normal state..

Announcing my new SharePoint Blog!

Mai Omar Desouki — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 04:37:00 GMT

Hello Everyone,

I have an announcement to make, this is my new blog, keep the old with you as well https://maiomardesouki as it still has some good posts.

But from now on, my posts will be on this new blog; so save the URL https://blogs.msdn.com/b/maiomardesouki/

Definitely and Basically, its a SharePoint Blog ;) and since SharePoint 2016 preview is out now, my first post will be about SharePoint 2016..

Mai Omar Desouki - SharePoint - PFE

Site Collection stuck on ReadOnly Mode

Announcing my new SharePoint Blog!