Setting a Site Collection to not be read-only

Joel Plaut

Updated On: April 01, 2026

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How to set a site collection as not read-only

Is your site collection read-only?

It is critical to be able to set a site collection to not be read-only. This situation can occur if a site backup is interrupted, as an SPSite backup is made read-only temporarily during backups.

 $site=Get-SPSite "http://SharePoint/managedpath/sitename"
$site.set_ReadOnly($false)

To turn it back to read-only:

$site=Get-SPSite "http://SharePoint/managedpath/sitename"
$site.set_ReadOnly($true)