Can't change Site Owner.

Question

I have a sharepoint site created by someone who is no longer at the company - this person is the site owner and I can't figure out how to change that.

It's a communication site and it is not 365 group connected - if that has any part to play in my hindrance..

Any suggestions would be massively appreciated.

Many thanks,
Tommy.

Answer 1

If you are a SharePoint admin or Global admin of your Microsoft 365 tenant:

You can go to SharePoint admin center > Sites > Active sites > Select the site you would like to add/change as an admin > Under Permissions tab you can change admins by Manage to remove the other admin users.

Note: Sometimes it may take a while to take effect after you remove the user as site admins before the user can access.

Answer 2

@Tommy Pool

Agree with mikecantin.

And you could change site owner by PowerShell.

$AdminCenterURL = "https://tenant-admin.sharepoint.com"  
$SiteCollURL="https://tenant.sharepoint.com/Sites/emilytest"  
$SiteOwner = "******@tenant.com"  
    
Connect-SPOService -url $AdminCenterURL -Credential (Get-Credential)  
    
Set-SPOSite -Identity $SiteCollURL -Owner $SiteOwner -NoWait  

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