Taking ownership of a SharePoint site

The farm admins no longer automatically have access to all SharePoint sites. If you don't have access you can take ownership or take a role of "Secondary site administrator" by using this command:

 

stsadm -o siteowner -url http://sharepoint.test.com/sites/[sitename] -ownerlogin [DOMAIN\netID]

use the -secondarylogin switch to take ownership of the “Secondary site administrator” role.