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To set the site collection administrators for a site:
- Click the Site Permissions header in the People and Groups page (choose Site Actions→Site Permissions).
- Choose Settings→Site Collection Administrators.
- Enter the user accounts for the people who are site collection administrators and then click OK.
How do I find a website collection administration?
Navigate to the root of a site collection (the most top level site) Click on Gear Icon > Site Settings. Under Users and Permissions, click on Site collection administrators.
How long are things in the recycle bin?
Items deleted within the last 30 days can be restored or permanently deleted from the Recycle Bin. Anything in the Recycle Bin for more than 30 days will be permanently deleted by the system and cannot be restored. Items in the Recycle Bin count toward your record and storage limits.
How to add an administrator to a site collection?
If the site collection to which you want to add an administrator is listed, select the URL of the site collection, and then click OK.
In the Acme Supplies Intranet, RRunner is the Site Collection Admin. Mr. Runner cannot work in other site collections or Central Administration unless those permissions have been granted separately. Is that the only distinction for the SharePoint Site Collection Administrator?
The SharePoint Site Collection Administrator cannot be locked out of any subsite, list, library, item, or page on the site. The permissions inheritance for any of these elements can be broken at any time, and permissions changed so that even users with Full Control rights have lesser permissions or even no permissions at all.
Where do I find the site collection list?
The Site Collection List page lists all the site collections in the web application. To display more information about a site collection, in the URL column, click the site collection. The table just before this procedure appears on the right side of the page.