I need to add a hand full of people that manage SharePoint to the site collection administrators group of every site collection in the farm. I don't want to go into all the hundreds of site collections and manually do this. Is there a way to script it in an STSADM command or do this at the web application level?

Hi Jeff, Have your tried STSADM Adduser command? Here a Technet article on this. stsadm.exe -o adduser -url URL -userlogin DOMAIN\User_Name -useremail someone@example.com -role Site_Group_Name -username "Users Display Name" -siteadmin Hope this helps!BlueSky2010

This one's a prime candidate for Powershell as well, if you have it installed on your server(s). You can use PS to access a web application, and loop through all the site collections under it, setting up additional site collection admins. - MMichael Mukalian | Jan 2010 - Dec 2010 MVP SharePoint Services | MCTS: MOSS 2007 Configuration | http://www.mukalian.com/blog

Hi, This is a very easy task you can carry out by using sharepoint object model. You can write code into a console application and run it on your server. Your code can be like this SPSite site = new SPSite("Your Url"); SPWebApplication webApp = site.WebApplication; SPSiteCollection sites = webApp.Sites; foreach (SPSite site1 in sites) { //Add your code here } I hope this will help you out. Thanks, Rahul Rashu