Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

384 Part V: Administration of Windows SharePoint Services
2. Click Remove Selected Users.
3. On the confirmation message that appears, click OK to remove the users.
Managing Users in a Site Collection
Every website with unique permissions has a Manage Users page that the site’s
administrator can use to add, modify, or delete users. In addition to this page, the
top-level website in a website collection also includes a page that server administrators
or the site collection administrator can use to view and delete users. This page
lists all users for the site collection, including the users of the top-level website and
users of any subsites in the site collection. When you remove a user from this list,
the user is removed from all sites and subsites in the site collection.
To remove a user from a top-level website
1. On the top-level website, click Site Settings.
2. Under Administration, click Go to Site Administration.
3. On the Top-Level Site Administration page, under Site Collection Administration,
click View site collection user information.
4. Select the check box next to the user you want to remove, and then click
Remove Selected Users.
Managing Users from SharePoint Central Administration
If you are an administrator on the server computer or a member of the SharePoint
administrators group, you might have administrative rights to change settings on the
Site Settings page for any individual site on your server. What happens when a toplevel
website owner leaves your organization or a user must be added to or
removed from a site that you do not have administrative rights for? The SharePoint
Central Administration page includes a link for managing users for sites even if the
administrator does not have rights to the site. You can add users or cross-site groups,
remove users or cross-site groups, change site-group membership, and change owners
without having to be an administrator on a specific site. You do, however, need
to know the URL for the site and the specific user name that you want to change.
To change the owner of a site collection
1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then
click SharePoint Central Administration.
2. On the SharePoint Central Administration page, under Security Configuration,
click Manage site collection owners.
3. On the Manage Site Collection Owners page, in the website URL box, type the
URL to the site, and then click View.
4. The information for the current site owner and secondary owner is automatically
filled in on the page when you click View.