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!