Question regarding adding Active Directory groups and site collections

I am trying to add an AD group to the "Site Collection Administrators" of a site collection, through "Site Settings".

The AD group is coming back as "No exact match found".

If I add the same user through "People and Groups" it is able to find and verify the AD Group.

Is it not possible to add AD groups as site collection administrators?

Any assistance would be highly appreciated

I received the following answers to my question from users outside this forum

The error message, like many others in SharePoint, is misleading. You can only add individuals to the site-collection admins. The Central admin (SCA) can only handle two. You need to go to the site-collection to add a third or fourth person. Regardless where this is done, you can only add individuals.

Dov Trietsch

Computer Software Consultant and Author

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As an alternative, you can achieve the same thing by using Web Application Policies (accessible from Central Administration --> Application Management)

You can use these to give AD Groups full control, read (or even deny access completely!) to all content within a Web Application.

The only problem of that is it will apply to all of the site collections in that Web Application. Depending on your site collection taxonomy, that may or may not be appropriate.

Martin Hatch

MCTS SharePoint | MCPD