WHAT IF THE SITE COLLECTION ADMINISTRATOR HAS BEGUN TO RUN AMOK?
If the fact that only site collection administrators can access a site collection (and you aren’t allowed to make yourself one) makes you uneasy, take heart. There are things you can do, of course, to gain access to any site collection in case of emergency. Truly, the only user accounts that will be listed and available to log in to the site collection just after creation will be the site collection administrators, but there are always ways around that if necessary. The hope is, you’ll never need them, but here are some alternate ways to access site collections even if you aren’t the site collection administrator: Any Farm Administrator can take over ownership of a site collection by using the Site collection administrators setting on the Application Management page of Central Administration. On that page the Farm Administrator can select the site collection, then see (and change) who the primary and secondary administrators are. Use Policy for Web Application under Application Managem
