We created a sub site to test the different options available in SharePoint 
as well as to try and see what things the users could do that would cause us 
problems.  For one sub site all of the user groups were removed from the 
site...which instantly gave me no access to the sub site.  when I request 
access it sends the email to me, but I can't go in and approve it.  

I can't delete the testing sub site because it says it still has its own sub 
site...yet I cannot see it or access it.  so I have two questions...

How can I get back into that sub site to delete it and how do I add a user 
(or two) that will have access to it regardless of who has been messing with 
the permissions.  My manager should have access to every single sub site on 
our SharePoint site, I just haven't figured out how to make that happen.  

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

One method would be to go into Central Administration and create policy for 
the Web Application that contains the site granting the needed permissions. 
This will give you access to all sites in the web application, regardless of 
the permission settings at the site level itself.

"H0MELY" <H0MELY@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:C89E7344-AD57-42AA-BCAB-EBC0B7B347A7@microsoft.com...
> We created a sub site to test the different options available in 
> SharePoint
> as well as to try and see what things the users could do that would cause 
> us
> problems.  For one sub site all of the user groups were removed from the
> site...which instantly gave me no access to the sub site.  when I request
> access it sends the email to me, but I can't go in and approve it.
>
> I can't delete the testing sub site because it says it still has its own 
> sub
> site...yet I cannot see it or access it.  so I have two questions...
>
> How can I get back into that sub site to delete it and how do I add a user
> (or two) that will have access to it regardless of who has been messing 
> with
> the permissions.  My manager should have access to every single sub site 
> on
> our SharePoint site, I just haven't figured out how to make that happen.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. 

Your second option is to add the user to the Site Collection Administrators 
group. This will give them access to all sites in the collection.

"H0MELY" <H0MELY@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:C89E7344-AD57-42AA-BCAB-EBC0B7B347A7@microsoft.com...
> We created a sub site to test the different options available in 
> SharePoint
> as well as to try and see what things the users could do that would cause 
> us
> problems.  For one sub site all of the user groups were removed from the
> site...which instantly gave me no access to the sub site.  when I request
> access it sends the email to me, but I can't go in and approve it.
>
> I can't delete the testing sub site because it says it still has its own 
> sub
> site...yet I cannot see it or access it.  so I have two questions...
>
> How can I get back into that sub site to delete it and how do I add a user
> (or two) that will have access to it regardless of who has been messing 
> with
> the permissions.  My manager should have access to every single sub site 
> on
> our SharePoint site, I just haven't figured out how to make that happen.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.