Adding an administrator to SharePoint 2007

Ever wanted to add another user as administrator in SharePoint 2007? Giving him all the rights in the Central Administration? Ok, no problem, you say, just add the user by changing “Update farm administrator’s group” and have a nice day. But soon you will see that some links will give you the access denied message, grrrr. Links like “User Profiles and Properties” and “Import Application Definition”. I solved my problems by checking the following:

1. add the user to the “Site collection administrators” for the correct site collections
2. in the Shared Services Administration check the “Personalization services permissions”
3. still in the Shared Services Administration check “Business Data Catalog permissions”

Maybe this is useful for someone else to

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~ by Peter on 5 August, 2008.