Subsite creation in SharePoint fails with error 0x80070005 for any user (even global/farm admins!)
This issue seems to pop up bafflingly often, so I thought it’s finally time to document it for future generations. Granted, it mainly considers Classic SharePoint (which is very tightly built around Publishing features) – but Classic is going to be part of our lives for quite a while still, especially for those of us still primarily on SharePoint Server! While trying to provision subsites to your SharePoint Publishing intranet you encounter either a generic “Access Denied” -error, or any error with 0x80070005 as the underlying error…Continue reading Subsite creation in SharePoint fails with error 0x80070005 for any user (even global/farm admins!)