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[Solved]:How to make SharePoint site or any site to work in READONLY mode

Some times there will be situation where we have to make the site to work in read only mode for the end user so that they can access the site , get the contents . That's it. They should not add any more data .This type of situation comes because of certain reasons. one among them i can say is, we are moving the database to another server and later we are making all the users to access new server for further usage. During this process if the user adds data it will be big problem. So let's make users to use the site in readonly mode.

Solution:
  In order to achieve this , follow the following steps:

1. Open the visual studio management studio and right click on  the database to which your site is attached to save the data. Now select the Properties






















2.click on the "Options"




















3.Scroll down till "State" and make the Database Read-only to True



















Now..it is done!!!.. Let the user access the site but not to add any data


Hope this may help someone

cheers
pradeepa achar

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