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Remove Site Collection Administrator

Remove site collection admin permissions from your account with PowerShell

Updated over 3 months ago

Command

Remove-SiteCollectionAdministrator

Description

The command to remove Site Collection Administrator permissions from the account used to connect to a SharePoint site.

To add site collection admin permissions instead, see Add-SiteCollectionAdministrator.

Examples

Remove Site Collection Administrator rights on Site

$site = Connect-Site -Url "http://myfarm1/sites/mysite"
Remove-SiteCollectionAdministrator -Site $site

Remove Site Collection Administrator rights on Site from the central administration

$centralAdminSite = Connect-Site -Url http://myfarm1:5000/Remove-SiteCollectionAdministrator -CentralAdmin $centralAdminSite -SiteUrl http://myfarm1/sites/mysite/

Remove Site Collection Administrator rights on Site from a Tenant

$tenant = Connect-Tenant -Domain mytenant -BrowserRemove-SiteCollectionAdministrator -CentralAdmin $tenant.Site -SiteUrl https://mytenant.sharepoint.com/sites/mysite/

Syntax

Remove-SiteCollectionAdministrator-Site <Site>
Remove-SiteCollectionAdministrator-CentralAdmin <Site>
-SiteUrl <String>

Parameters

-CentralAdmin <Site>

Specifies the farm or tenant site for the transform.

Required?

True

Default value

None

Accept pipeline input?

True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)

Accept wildcard characters?

False

Parameter set name

CentralAdmin

Aliases

None

-Site <Site>

Specifies the site to transform.

Required?

True

Default value

None

Accept pipeline input?

True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)

Accept wildcard characters?

False

Parameter set name

(All)

Aliases

None

-SiteUrl <String>

Specifies the site to transform.

Required?

True

Default value

None

Accept pipeline input?

True (ByValue, ByPropertyName)

Accept wildcard characters?

False

Parameter set name

CentralAdmin

Aliases

None

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