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colonel_claypoo
Iron Contributor
Jun 05, 2018

Unable to set site collection admin with Set-SPOSite

Hi,   in our SPO tenant we have a couple of site collections that no global admin account can access. I tried making a global admin account of ours the site collection admin by using Set-SPOSite. ...
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Premkumar Solanki's avatar
Premkumar Solanki
Copper Contributor
Sep 24, 2018

Hi Florian Hein,

 

Please try the below steps:

1. Run 

Get-sposite and Note the URL of the affected Site collection.

2. Run

Get-SPOSite https://ksvp.sharepoint.com/sites/collection2 | Set-SPOSite -Owner "EMAIL ADDRESS of the desired OWNER" -Confirm

 

Please mark the question answered if steps above helped...

  • Premkumar Solanki's avatar
    Premkumar Solanki
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 24, 2018

    Hi Florian Hein,

     

    Please try the below steps:

    1. Run 

    Get-sposite and Note the URL of the affected Site collection.

    2. Run

    Get-SPOSite https://ksvp.sharepoint.com/sites/collection2 | Set-SPOSite -Owner "EMAIL ADDRESS of the desired OWNER" -Confirm

     

    Please mark the question answered if steps above helped...

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