Comments on: SharePoint: Site Owners – Display and Manage

By: Peter Allen

Peter Allen — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:28:44 +0000

I am not sure I understand what you are asking. This solution does not use or require access to Central Admin. Can you explain more?

By: Deeptyranjan

Deeptyranjan — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:59:12 +0000

Is there any way to see the site owner name without using Central admin ?

By: SharePoint Daily

SharePoint Daily — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 13:11:48 +0000

Windows 7 SP 1 Beta Leaked; Microsoft: A Cloud Services Business?; OpenOffice Stuck Under a Cloud…

Top News Stories Download Office 2010 Deployment Options Overview Resources (Softpedia) With the business…

By: Peter Allen

Peter Allen — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:21:31 +0000

Nick,

I understand what you are saying if you only want Site Collection Admins. But Site Owners may not necessarily be the Site Admins. So in order to create the flexibility, I created this solution.

For example a site may have several users who have Full Control, but only one of them is the Site Owner or the person who manages and is the decision maker. If we pulled it from permissions then we would get a list of more then one person listed. This, I believe, would be confusing to the end user. Which person in the list is the true Site Owner.

Second it does not address having a centralized list of the site owners. This solution can span Web Apps, Site Collections and Sub-sites. When managing many Web Apps, Site Collections and Sub-sites, having a centralized list of owners can make it easy to manage many aspects of a SharePoint deployment.

I highly recommend starting a SharePoint Site Owners User Group within an organization to share best practices and to keep sites and site owners aligned.

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:53:54 +0000

This is a great idea and we have been using this for both our Internet and Intranet sites. On the Intranet we use a CEWP and ‘General Information’ template for each clinic/department SharePoint site. Clinic/department have hours of operations and Web Content Manager.
Here is an example of my information:
SharePoint/Webmaster Contact:
MCXE-IMD
719-526-2342, DSN: 691-2342
E-Mail: [email protected]

By: Susan Nare

Susan Nare — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:25:13 +0000

I really like this idea. In my company environment we publish a public list of all SharePoint sites and who the primary and backup owners are for each site. This was done to reduce questions to the helpdesk about site content; knowing who the site owners are encourages the end users to go directly to the folks who can answer content questions. However an ongoing issue is site ownership changes or people being added to a site and not really knowing who the players are. By placing this site ownership information on the front of the site, it is more likely admin folks like me will be notified when someone has moved on and no longer owns the site and will easily let new users to the site know who to contact regarding content issues. Very good idea! Thank you!

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:00:59 +0000

Great idea, I have been trying to find a solution very similar to this.

I am not keen on maintaining a custom list somewhere of all the site owners. Especially because SharePoint provides the “Site Collection Admins” already I’d rather just have a webpart that cleanly exposed the two site collection administrators for the site collection and maintain it there.