Set User as Site collection Administrator in SharePoint Online (Office 365)

In this blog you will learn how to Set User as Site collection Administrator in SharePoint Online (Office 365).

Requirement:

This is another short blog on SharePoint Online .As I said previously, I just want to share my training experience on SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online. The following figure shown a list of site collection administrators of a site collection. In this blog, I will show, how to add new site collection administrator in SharePoint online using PowerShell.



Syntax:

• Connect to SharePoint Online by using the following PowerShell command. It takes the URL of our tenant admin and a username. Then it will ask for password.
  

  Connect-SPOService -Url https://moharanakirti-admin.sharepoint.com [email protected]

• Set “Kirti Moharana” as a site administrator of the provided site,
  

  Set-SPOUser -Site https://moharanakirti.sharepoint.com/sites/kirti [email protected] -IsSiteCollectionAdmin $true

Output:

After running the above cmdlets, we will see the new user is added as a site collection administrator as shown in following figures.