Site Collection Administrator has left the building

Question

We have an issue with some of our SharePoint MOS (2007) installs - the SCA has left the organisation and taken his privileges with him, and we need to reassign his role to someone else.

Is there any way to do this without deleting the whole shebang and redoing everything?

I am no SharePoint expert at any level, but this is something that we're going to have to recover.

Answer 1

Ok Paul, you will need help from Share-point admins (someone with server access to the Sharepoint farm). You need someone with SharePoint admin privilege to open Central Administration and update the Primary\Secondary site administrator. I don't have any 2007 running so steps here are from sp2013 but it is very similar.

1. Open Central admin
2. Open application management.
3. Click on Change site collection administrators.
4. Choose correct web app and site collection, change the admins and click ok.

Answer 2

I don't have any experience on SP2007 but stsadm may help you I guess. You can set another user as a site collection administrator. This link and this link may help you.