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spo site admin add

Adds a user or group as a site collection administrator

Usage​

m365 spo site admin add [options]

Options​

-u, --siteUrl <siteUrl>

The URL of the SharePoint site

--userId [userId]

The ID of the user to add as a site collection admin

--userName [userName]

The user principal name of the user to add as a site collection admin

--groupId [groupId]

The ID of the Microsoft Entra ID group to add as a site collection admin

--groupName [groupName]

The name of the Microsoft Entra ID group to add as a site collection admin

--primary

If set, will add the user as primary site collection admin. The old primary site collection admin will be replaced and set as secondary site collection admin

--asAdmin

If specified, we will use the SharePoint admin center to execute the command

-h, --help [help]

Output usage information. Optionally, specify which section of command's help you want to see. Allowed values are options, examples, remarks, permissions, response, full. Default is options.

--query [query]

JMESPath query string. See http://jmespath.org/ for more information and examples.

-o, --output [output]

Output type. json, text, csv, md, none. Default json.

--verbose

Runs command with verbose logging.

--debug

Runs command with debug logging.

Remarks​

info

To use this command with the --asAdmin mode, you have to have permissions to access the tenant admin site.

Without this parameter, you have to have site collection admin permissions for the requested site.

Examples​

Add user as primary site collection administrator

m365 spo site admin add --siteUrl https://contoso.sharepoint.com --userId 600713c5-53c6-4f24-b454-3c35e22b2639 --primary

Adds group as secondary site collection administrator as SharePoint admin

m365 spo site admin add --siteUrl https://contoso.sharepoint.com --groupName SP_Administrators --asAdmin

Response​

The command won't return a response on success.