The Sharepoint Administrator is responsible for setting up and maintaining a Sharepoint server farm. Sharepoint administrators may be members of an information technology department.


The duties of a Sharepoint Administrator are wide-ranging, and vary widely from one organization to another. Sharepoint admins are usually charged with supporting, and maintaining Sharepoint sites, users and permissions, the look and feel of the overall Sharepoint sites, maintaining galleries of graphics, templates, Web Parts, and design components, and planning for and responding to requests for collaboration sites and/or publishing sites. Other duties may include server administration or light programming.

The Sharepoint administrator is responsible for the following things:

• User administration (setup and maintaining Sharepoint accounts)
• Maintaining the Sharepoint system
• Monitoring system performance
• Creating collaboration sites
• Installing Web Parts
• Implementing the policies for the use of the various sites in Sharepoint
• Setting up security policies for users. A Sharepoint admin must have a strong grasp of computer security and user privileges

The Sharepoint Administrator has full (unrestricted) access, so he/she can do anything with the Sharepoint software on the Sharepoint server farm. For example, the Admin can remove add or remove system files. They can also change any of the settings within Sharepoint. They can also add or remove a person's access to any part of Sharepoint.