Changing SharePoint Group Ownership

Changing SharePoint Group Ownership

Powershell commands are very powerful and its mainly used for sharepoint admistratve tasks. Below are the powershell commands to change the ownership of a SharePoint Group.

 

#Get the SPWeb Object
$web = Get-SPWeb http://mysites

#Find the Group
$group = $web.SiteGroups["CustomGroup"]

#Ensure that user is a part of authenticated users
$user = $web.EnsureUser("domain\username")

#Assign that user as the owner
$group.Owner = $user

#Update the Group

$group.Update()

 

 

Happy SharePointing :-)