Add Site Collection Administrator to All Sites in SharePoint using PowerShell
Site collection administrators have God like power within a Site Collection in SharePoint 2016. Apart from Primary & Secondary site collection administrators, we can add additional site collection administrator on any SharePoint
site collection.
How to Add a Site Collection Administrator in SharePoint 2016?
To Add a Site Collection Administrator follow these steps:
PowerShell Script to Add a Site Collection Administrator to All Site Collections in SharePoint:
How to Add a Site Collection Administrator in SharePoint 2016?
To Add a Site Collection Administrator follow these steps:
- Site Settings Gear >> Click on "Site Settings" Menu Item
- Click on "Site collection administrators link under "Users and Permissions"
- Enter the New user in Site Collection Administrators Field. Click OK to save your changes.
PowerShell Script to Add a Site Collection Administrator to All Site Collections in SharePoint:
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue #User Account to add as Site Collection Admin $UserAccount="Crescent\Salaudeen" Get-SPSite -Limit "All" | ForEach-Object { $User = $_.RootWeb.EnsureUser($UserAccount) if($User.IsSiteAdmin -ne $True) { $User.IsSiteAdmin = $True $User.Update() Write-Host "Added Site Collection Administrator for Site Collection:" $_.URL -ForegroundColor Green } else { Write-Host "User is already an Site Collection Administrator for Site Collection:" $_.URL -ForegroundColor Yellow } }
You can use Web Application User Policy in Central Admin to give Full control to the Entire web application, instead of adding users into individual site collections!
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