Use the farm administrator account to add users to the Shared Services Administration site
Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007
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Topic Last Modified: 2007-08-28
Before you perform this procedure, confirm that:
You have read the topic Manage permissions to the Shared Services Administration site.
Your system is running either the Standard or Enterprise version of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.
Important
Administrators must be using a farm administrator account.
Site collection administrators for the Shared Services Administration site can add or remove any account from any group, including their own personal accounts. This can result in a situation where no users are site collection administrators and permissions for the site can no longer be managed. It can even result in a situation where no user has any permission to the site at all. Site collection administrators should be careful not to do this. However, if this does occur, a farm administrator account can be used to add users to the Shared Services Administration site.
Use the farm administrator account to add users to the Shared Services Administration site
Use the following procedure to use the farm administrator account to add users to the Shared Services Administration site.
Use the farm administrator account to add users to the Shared Services Administration site
On the Central Administration home page, click the Application Management tab.
On the Application Management page, in the Application Security section, click Policy for Web application.
On the Policy for Web Application page, click Add Users.
On the Add Users page, in the Web Application section, in the Web Application menu, click Change Web application.
On the Select Web Application page, click the Web application for the Shared Services Administration site.
On the Add Users page, click Next.
In the Choose Users section, perform the following:
Type the name or account that you want to add to the Site Collection Administrators group using the form domain/username.
Click the Check Names icon. If the name or account is found in directory services, it will appear as a link in the text box.
If the name or account was not found, or if you want to search for more users, click the Browse icon.
In the Select People dialog box, in the Find box, type part or all of the user's name or account name, and then press Enter. All accounts that match appear in the text box.
Select one or more accounts that you want to add, and then click Add.
When you are done adding users, click OK.
On the Add Users page, in the Choose Permissions section, select the Full Control check box.
Click Finish.
The selected accounts now have Full Control to the Web application, but do not yet have access to the Shared Services Administration site. To be granted access as a site administrator, each farm administrator account must be used to browse to the Shared Services Administration page, which is accessible by clicking Shared Services Administration on the Quick Launch.
The farm administrator account added with the policy for the Web application is automatically granted all of the services permissions for both personalization services and the Business Data Catalog. This site collection administrator can add other site collection administrators, add users to the Viewer group, and add services permissions for other users. For more information about adding users to the Shared Services Administration site, see Modify permissions for users and groups in the Shared Services Administration site. For more information about services permissions, see Manage permissions for personalization services.