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...

5 comments:

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

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  4. Great Solution! Super Like. Thanks a lot

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