Access Denied Error after migrating to SharePoint 2013
Scenario : We were working for a client, they had many groups and we had to build a collaboration portal for all the groups. Key thing was few sites of some groups were already present in SharePoint 2010 in different standalone servers. Migration was a key thing here as the existing sites has huge data, and huge user base. The Requirement was to build a portal /web application which will have migrated sites and new set of sites as per agreed site structure. According to the agreed architecture and design we created a new web application and started building the site hierarchy. As part of this we followed the regular approach database detach –attach method and migrated the existing SharePoint 2010 site .Migration was successful and we were able to access the site with the system account. Later we tried with couple of site admin accounts, to our surprise we were getting “ACCESS DENIED” with any other user id. Background: By default when we create a web application in SharePo