Changing Owner of Site

[zzap64]

Hi,

Currently we have a list of available sites on the portal home page. How on earth do you change the owner of an existing site without deleting it and re-creating it?

Any help would be most appreciated.

Regards

Barry

 

[Thomas2000]

Hello,

You should be able to do that through SharePoint Central Administration pages. You should be able to add a new owner to the site and delete the old one. If the sites you are reffering to are Windwos SharePoint Services sites then you will use the Windows SharePoint Services section in SharePoint Central Administration pages.

Regards,
Thomas

 

[Thomas2000]

Hello again,

also you could on the sharepoint site go to Site Settings, view information about site users, and there you can set users as site collection owners and also remove that. But the best way would be to do all this from sharepoint central administration pages.

//Thomas

 

[ChaserNL]

Hi Thomas and Barry,

I agree with Thomas in that you can set the owner trough the site settings but only from that specific list not the manage users list but the bottom option in site-settings.

When i read the question it thought easy just go to Central Administration, but when i checked i couldn't find the option, Thomas are you sure its there? am i looking in the wrong place? Or did you assume it was there like i did?

Greetings!
Paul

 

[Thomas2000]

Hi Barry and Paul,

In Central Administration (for both Portal and WSS) under Security Configuration, you have manage site collection owners. From there you can check who those are and also add new ones.

Regards,
Thomas

 

[zzap64]

Thanks guys - will give a go! Does this mean the owners will get all access requests for permission to view the site? Or will that go to the administrator of the entire portal?

 

[Thomas2000]

Hello,

I would think that the access requests will go to the actual user you set as Site collection owner for the specific WSS sites. An easy way of checking that in a WSS site is to go to Site settings, Go to Site Admnistration, click manage access requests and check what e-mail address is listed there.

Well...time to head home after another hard day at work!

Cheers!

Thomas

 

[ChaserNL]

Ok so from Central admin you can only set the collection owner, so i was half wrong or right! Thanx Thomas!

The site request option is also for the entire site collection.

I'll head home too