Delete a user account or cross-site group
Delete a user account or cross-site group
Important When you delete a user account, all personalizations the user has made are deleted as well.
Use Site Administration to delete a user or cross-site group from all site groups
- On the Web site you want to manage, click Site Settings.
- On the Site Settings page, in the Administration section, click Manage Users.
- On the Manage Users page, select the box next to the user or cross-site group you want to delete.
- Click Remove Selected Users.
- On the confirmation message that appears, click OK to remove the users.
Remove a user from a top-level Web site
- On the top-level Web site, click Site Settings.
- In the Administration section, click Go to Site Administration.
- On the Top-Level Site Administration page, in the Site Collection Administration section, click View site collection user information.
- Select the box next to the user you want to remove, and then click Remove Selected Users.
Use SharePoint Central Administration to delete a site user or change site group membership
- Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click SharePoint Central Administration.
- On the SharePoint Central Administration page, in the Security section, click Manage Web site users.
- On the Manage Web Site Users page, in the Site URL box, type the URL to the site, and then click View.
- In the Enter Site User section, in the Account name box, type the user account you want to change or delete, and then click View.
- To change site group membership, select the box next to the site group to which you want the user to belong, and then click Update.
- To remove the user from all site groups, select the Delete this user account box, and then click Update.
Use the command line to delete a site user
You use the deleteuser operation to remove users from a site. The deleteuser operation takes the url and userlogin parameters. To remove a user, use the following syntax:
stsadm.exe -o deleteuser –url http://server_name/site_name
–userlogin domain_name\user_name
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