Sharepoint - Site Collection Administrator has left the building

Ok Paul, you will need help from Share-point admins (someone with server access to the Sharepoint farm). You need someone with SharePoint admin privilege to open Central Administration and update the Primary\Secondary site administrator. I don't have any 2007 running so steps here are from sp2013 but it is very similar.

  1. Open Central admin
  2. Open application management.
  3. Click on Change site collection administrators.
  4. Choose correct web app and site collection, change the admins and click ok.

I don't have any experience on SP2007 but stsadm may help you I guess. You can set another user as a site collection administrator. This link and this link may help you.

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