Create a Site Collection Administrator with stsadm

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Taking over administration for SharePoint after a previous administrator was ‘let go’ always has little gotchas that pop up. One of those can be needing to create a new site collection administrator.  If you can’t get access to the site, you can use stsadm to create a site collection administrator.

stsadm -o adduser -url URLOFSITECOLLECTION -userlogin USERLOGIN -useremail "USEREMAIL" -role "Full Control" -group "Farm Administrators" -username "USERDISPLAYNAME" –siteadmin

 

Now you have a user that has access to undo all of the previous Administrator’s SharePoint badness.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    October 19, 2012
    To undo all the sharepoint badness, one can see the Report Log. So, dont forget to activate Reporting in the site Reporting.