Hi Folks,

Members of an Active Directory Group need to be Site Collection Administrators. I know this is not possible via Site Actions > Site Settings > Modify All Site Settings > Site Collection Administrators, because only users can be entered in this box. Whist this is OK as a fall-back position, I would really like to be able to give a group administration permisssions.

After a small amount of reading online, one suggestion is to give this AD Group permission via the Web Application (in Central Administration, Application Management > Policy for Web Application), however, I don't actually know what this does!! If I assign Full Control permission to the AD Group, will they automatically get Site Collection Administration permissions??

Thanks,

Alex

Hi, it is indeed the purpose.

I use this all the time, and if there is a lot of site collections, it's a life saver.

Also useful for giving read access to a 3rd party.

The design of the site administrators in moss is just plain bad. (no groups and only two people ? it's for managing SBS or what? ;)

 

• Marked as answer by YourMum797 Wednesday, August 04, 2010 12:49 PM

Thanks Emmanuel,

Sounds great - so I tried it, and it works just how I need it to.

Cheers!
Alex

UPDATE

You can do this in SharePoint 2010 after installing the March 7, 2012 hotfix for SharePoint Foundation; and in SharePoint 2013.  Just go:

1. Settings > Site Settings > Users and Permissions > Site collection administrators
2. Enter the AD group
3. Click OK

References

• Description of the SharePoint Foundation 2010 hotfix package (Sts-x-none.msp): March 7, 2012
  

• Edited by Stephan Bren 10 hours 19 minutes ago