How to add a user as a Site Collection Admin using PS

How to add a user as a Site Collection Admin using PS

In this article we want to share with you how to add a second Site Collection Admin using Powershell. If this is a task you are trying to complete, keep reading, you might achieve it by the end of this reading. 

Step-by-step

1. First you need to establish a SPO connection using global admin credentials.


2. Use the following sentence filling the brackets with your own information, you can change $true if you want to add the permission or $false if you are going to remove it.

Set-SPOUser -Site https://<Tenant Name>-my.sharepoint.com/personal/<user site>  -LoginName <User> -IsSiteCollectionAdmin $true



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