Changing Site Owners from Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 Central Administration

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The SharePoint Central Administration page includes a link for managing users for sites. Administrators on the server computer and members of the SharePoint administrators group can use this link to change owners, add users or cross-site groups, remove users or cross-site groups, and change site group membership, without having to be an administrator on a specific site. Administrators do, however, need to know the URL for the site.

Change the owner of a site

  1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click SharePoint Central Administration.

  2. On the SharePoint Central Administration page, under Security Configuration, click Manage site collection owners.

  3. On the Manage Site Collection Owners page, in the Site URL box, type the URL of the site, and then click View.

    The information for the current site owner and secondary owner appears automatically on the page when you click View.

  4. In the Site Owner section, in the User name box, type the account name (in the form DOMAIN\username) and e-mail address (in the form someone@example.com) for the user who will be the site owner and administrator.

  5. If you have a new secondary contact name, type that account name in the Secondary Owner section.

  6. Click OK.

See Also

Concepts

Changing Site Owners from the Command Line (Windows SharePoint Services 2.0)