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I ran into an issue tonight with a client’s WSS install where NOBODY was a Site Collection Administrator. Sure enough, the accounts were listed there (and I even validated\/tried Farm Administrators, modifying in Central Admin, etc.). My account was there, but no matter what I did, I didn’t have the permissions I required \u2013 I was orphaned from administering the site. I could get into Site Settings, I could get into Advanced Permissions, etc. but I could not modify anything \u2013 only the ‘Actions’ menu items existed. <\/p>\n

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As well, if I attempted to add a new Site Collection Administrator, I would get this You need to be a site collection administrator to set this property”. Well duh, I knew that, but I was one\u2026 *sigh* <\/p>\n

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What changed\/caused this? <\/h2>\n

Unclear. Very unclear actually. The Server it is on is a VMWare guest and last night I moved it from the inventory of one VM host to another (the disks were on a SAN, this wasn’t a vConvert, it was a literal Remove\/Add between inventories). The only other thing I did was give the guest more RAM and more CPU’s (as the new host had more capabilities). <\/p>\n

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What fixed it? <\/h2>\n

Well, if you are reading this and depending on it for a result, you may be a bit disappointed as it wasn’t a quick\/easy fix. I tried to use STSADM to define a Site Collection Administrator at the command line. The command ran successfully but did not yield any positive result (Referece: http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/cc723735.aspx<\/a> – syntax – stsadm.exe -o siteowner -url URL [-ownerlogin DOMAINUser_Name | – secondownerlogin DOMAINUser_Name]<\/em><\/strong><\/span>). <\/p>\n

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After scouring the web and trying to find anything of similar behavior, I tried the following (And it succeeded!). Sadly though, I still don’t understand how this happened. Possibly a user with Site Collection Administration privileges did something disruptive to the site or something directly in the database, but frankly, I doubt it \u2013 in the end, I’m going to blame some kind of SQL Corruption. <\/p>\n

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  1. I created a new web application <\/li>\n
  2. I restored a site collection database from backup (somehow expecting that the problem would be embedded in a previous version) <\/li>\n
  3. Once restored, I verified I had all the access I would expect <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    And I did. The new web application, using a backup of a site collection, was totally fine. So I deleted the original web application and site collection and I’m moving on with life. Another reason I love Site Collection Backups. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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