Script to add or remove a user as
site collection administrator in many site collections
Description: many times as a SharePoint administrator we required to
perform a task that to add a user as administrator in many site collections.
This is very difficult if has 100’s of site collections. In this article I am
providing the script how to achieve this with one click.
Instructions: Follow the Instructions below to run successfully.
1. Copy the script in notepad and save as .PS1
2. Do modifications as said below
3. Open power shell as Admin,Ensure your in the same location where Script
is copied.
4. Run ./Script.ps1
5. You see a below screen once its run successfully
Modifications: You need to
do below modifications according to your requirements.
1. $newSiteCollectionAdminLoginName = "Name of user"
2. $newSiteCollectionAdminEmail = " user mail ID"
3. $newSiteCollectionAdminName = " Name of user "
4. $siteURL = " siteURL
" #URL to any site in the web application.
Script:
# This script will add named Site
Collection Administrator
# to all Site Collections within a
Web Application.
#
# Author: Anil Avula
######################## Start
Variables ########################
$newSiteCollectionAdminLoginName
= ""Name of user "
$newSiteCollectionAdminEmail =
" user mail ID "
$newSiteCollectionAdminName =
" Name of user "
$newSiteCollectionAdminNotes =
""
$siteURL = " siteURL " #URL to any site in the web
application.
$add = 1 #
1 for adding this user, 0 to remove this user
######################## End
Variables ########################
Clear-Host
$siteCount = 0
[system.reflection.assembly]::loadwithpartialname("Microsoft.SharePoint")
$site = new-object
microsoft.sharepoint.spsite($siteURL)
$webApp = $site.webapplication
$allSites = $webApp.sites
foreach ($site in $allSites)
{
$web = $site.openweb()
$web.allusers.add($newSiteCollectionAdminLoginName,
$newSiteCollectionAdminEmail, $newSiteCollectionAdminName,
$newSiteCollectionAdminNotes)
$user =
$web.allUsers[$newSiteCollectionAdminLoginName]
$user.IsSiteAdmin = $add
$user.Update()
$web.Dispose()
$siteCount++
}
$site.dispose()
write-host "Updated"
$siteCount "Site Collections."
