Site Collection Administrator vs Site Owner (Full Control) in SharePoint
- SharePoint Server (system?) Administrator – responsible for the physical servers, software installation, backup, etc.
- SharePoint Site Collection Administrator – the user responsible for the entire site collection, has access to Site Collection wide features in several places including Site Settings.
- SharePoint Site Owner – a user with “full control” rights to a single site, it’s lists, libraries and content, and any sub sites and workspaces created below it. I.e. responsible for a “branch” of a site collection.
Here's a list of what the Site Collection Administrator can see that the Site Owner (Full Control user) can not:
Site Actions -> Site Settings-- Users and Permissions
---- Site collection administrators (only an option when at a top level site)
-- Galleries
---- Workflows
-- Site Administration
---- Content and structure logs
-- The entire Site Collection Administration column is missing
(which also means that the full control user can't access the 2nd level Recycle Bin)
Here’s the Site Actions –> Site Settings screens…
For the Site Collection Administrator, at a top level site:
I got this useful information from the following link
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