Tuesday, June 22, 2010

"New" ribbon icon disabled in central admin

Issue:
You cannot see the "New" icon in the Ribbon menu, when you are trying to create any new web application or service through SharePoint 2010 central admin in windows 7 machine.

Reason & Solution
The reason is very simple. The Internet explorer is not opened using the administrator privileges. So, Open the Internet Explorer with "Run as Administrator" privileges. How to do this?

OK, I will explain you the steps here.

1. Just right click on the IE icon.
2. There you can see a menu as "Run as Administrator".
3. In IE, browse the application. You can see the "New" icon in Ribbon menu as below:



Thats it...
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18 comments:

  1. Ranjani RajagopalanMarch 7, 2011 at 10:40 PM

    Hi ,

    If i Run as Administrator, only New option is enabled in ribbon interface all the other options are disabled. Please let me know what need to be done.

    thnx in advance

    thanks & regards,
    Ranjani

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  2. Sensoft2000March 7, 2011 at 10:51 PM

    By default "New" option alone will be visible. If you need other options, you need to select the specific web application.

    If you need to enable the specific option, send me the details with screenshot.

    -Sen

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    1. bhanu prasadJune 12, 2012 at 1:26 AM

      I login as central admin as run as administrator with IE but sill my new button in ribbon is disabled, I tried since 1 month, re installed sharepoint and configured no of times but i am still encountering problem,let me out from that issue.

      thanks in advance

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    2. UnknownJune 21, 2013 at 1:38 PM

      I tried both ways, run as administrator and also localhost, both does not work. The New button is still disabled. Please help...

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    3. Sensoft2000June 21, 2013 at 8:31 PM

      Can you please share the screen shot?

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    4. UnknownJune 22, 2013 at 11:03 AM

      Thanks for your time, but I found a way to activate that. I am writing down the steps that I followed;
      Start –> Control Panel –> System and security
      Now here under Action center click ” Change user account control settings”
      Get the scroll bar to never notify.
      Click on OK.
      Restart your system(must)
      Now open the browser in “run as administrator” mode.
      Browse to the create web application page and the button will be enabled.

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  3. Ranjani RajagopalanMarch 8, 2011 at 12:28 AM

    thanks.

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  4. khashaApril 10, 2011 at 11:48 PM

    hi,
    it does not work for me even after running IE as administrator

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  5. kunalApril 25, 2012 at 6:27 AM

    Great Solution! Super Like. Thanks a lot

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  6. daltonelvisJune 22, 2012 at 11:07 PM

    thanks yes it worked

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  7. Sivaprakasam RajappanAugust 11, 2012 at 10:59 AM

    It could be a problem with the trus settings. Try changing the trust settings or type http://localhost:3249 instead of http://computername:3249. That would help enabling the new application option

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  8. gregcoalyMay 22, 2013 at 7:42 AM

    Aargh! Thanks!

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  9. UnknownNovember 16, 2013 at 3:23 AM

    I have already done all step but i did not success.Please help

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  10. UnknownNovember 16, 2013 at 3:24 AM

    I have already done these all step but i did not success.Please help

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  11. nunyaFebruary 10, 2014 at 1:35 PM

    Unfortunately I fall into the category of people that this did not work for. Running as admin seems to be the number one answer out there, followed by turning UAC off. Unfortunately I have tried both on my win 2008 r2 standard box with no success. Unlike some people I am having the issue where my entire ribbon on the sharepoint admin site is always disabled.

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  12. JeremyFebruary 10, 2014 at 1:38 PM

    I have a win 2008 r2 standard box that I have UAC turned off on and am using a domain and local admin account to log into, and I am running IE 11 in admin mode. However in the sharepoint admin site the ribbon is always all disabled, many of the link buttons do not work as well, although some do.

    It feels as though there is some javascript not getting loaded.

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  13. Richard KeaneJuly 7, 2017 at 9:12 AM

    I tried all of the above suggestions & still got the issue. I then disabled IE Enhanced Security & that fixed it.

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  14. AmitOctober 12, 2020 at 5:08 AM

    Thanks it works

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