{"id":5022,"date":"2024-02-07T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/?p=5022"},"modified":"2024-02-07T13:00:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T21:00:09","slug":"how-to-access-to-a-users-onedrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/?p=5022","title":{"rendered":"How to Access to a User&#8217;s OneDrive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"access-a-former-users-onedrive-documents\">Access a former user&#8217;s OneDrive documents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you remove a user&#8217;s license but don&#8217;t delete the account, you can give yourself access to the content in the user&#8217;s OneDrive. If you delete the user&#8217;s account, you have 30 days by default to access the former user&#8217;s OneDrive data.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/onedrive\/set-retention\">Learn how to set the OneDrive retention for deleted users<\/a>. If you don&#8217;t&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office365\/admin\/add-users\/restore-user\">restore a user account<\/a>&nbsp;within this time, their OneDrive content is deleted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To preserve a former user&#8217;s OneDrive files, first give yourself access to their OneDrive, and then move the files you want to keep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In the admin center, go to the&nbsp;<strong>Users<\/strong>&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/p\/?linkid=834822\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Active users<\/a>&nbsp;page.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select a user.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On the user properties page, select&nbsp;<strong>OneDrive<\/strong>. Under&nbsp;<strong>Get access to files<\/strong>, select&nbsp;<strong>Create link to files<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select the link to open the file location. Download the files to your computer, or select&nbsp;<strong>Move to<\/strong>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<strong>Copy to<\/strong>&nbsp;to move or copy them to your own OneDrive or to a shared library.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;Note<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You can move or copy up to 500 MB of files and folders at a time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When you move or copy documents that have version history, only the latest version is moved.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Administrative options for an active user under the OneDrive tab in the Microsoft 365 admin center are currently not supported for multi-geo tenants.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also grant access to another user to access a former employee&#8217;s OneDrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sign in to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/p\/?linkid=2024339\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admin center<\/a>&nbsp;as a global admin or SharePoint admin.If you get a message that you don&#8217;t have permission to access the admin center, then you don&#8217;t have administrator permissions in your organization.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the left pane, select&nbsp;<strong>Admin centers<\/strong>&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;<strong>SharePoint<\/strong>. (You might need to select&nbsp;<strong>Show all<\/strong>&nbsp;to see the list of admin centers.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If the classic SharePoint admin center appears, select&nbsp;<strong>Open it now<\/strong>&nbsp;at the top of the page to open the SharePoint admin center.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the left pane, select&nbsp;<strong>More features<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Under&nbsp;<strong>User profiles<\/strong>, select&nbsp;<strong>Open<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Under&nbsp;<strong>People<\/strong>, select&nbsp;<strong>Manage User Profiles<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enter the former employee&#8217;s name and select&nbsp;<strong>Find<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Right-click the user, and then choose&nbsp;<strong>Manage site collection owners<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Add the user to&nbsp;<strong>Site collection administrators<\/strong>&nbsp;and select&nbsp;<strong>OK<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The user will now be able to access the former employee&#8217;s OneDrive using the OneDrive URL.<a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/admin\/add-users\/remove-former-employee-step-5?view=o365-worldwide#revoke-admin-access-to-a-users-onedrive\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"revoke-admin-access-to-a-users-onedrive\">Revoke admin access to a user&#8217;s OneDrive<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>You can give yourself access to the content in a user&#8217;s OneDrive, but you may want to remove your access when you no longer need it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sign in to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/p\/?linkid=2024339\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">admin center<\/a>&nbsp;as a global admin or SharePoint admin.If you get a message that you don&#8217;t have permission to access the admin center, then you don&#8217;t have administrator permissions in your organization.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the left pane, select&nbsp;<strong>Admin centers<\/strong>&nbsp;&gt;&nbsp;<strong>SharePoint<\/strong>. (You might need to select&nbsp;<strong>Show all<\/strong>&nbsp;to see the list of admin centers.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If the classic SharePoint admin center appears, select&nbsp;<strong>Open it now<\/strong>&nbsp;at the top of the page to open the SharePoint admin center.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In the left pane, select&nbsp;<strong>More features<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Under&nbsp;<strong>User profiles<\/strong>, select&nbsp;<strong>Open<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Under&nbsp;<strong>People<\/strong>, select&nbsp;<strong>Manage User Profiles<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Enter the user&#8217;s name and select&nbsp;<strong>Find<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Right-click the user, and then choose&nbsp;<strong>Manage site collection owners<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Remove the person who no longer needs access to the user&#8217;s data, and then select\u00a0<strong>OK<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Ref: <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/admin\/add-users\/remove-former-employee-step-5?view=o365-worldwide\">Step 5 &#8211; Give another employee access to OneDrive and Outlook data &#8211; Microsoft 365 admin | Microsoft Learn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Access a former user&#8217;s OneDrive documents If you remove a user&#8217;s license but don&#8217;t delete the account, you can give yourself access to the content in the user&#8217;s OneDrive. If you delete the user&#8217;s account, you have 30 days by default to access the former user&#8217;s OneDrive data.&nbsp;Learn how to set the OneDrive retention for <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/?p=5022\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[238,585],"tags":[1757],"class_list":["post-5022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-google-cloud","tag-access-to-a-users-onedrive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5023,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions\/5023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/SUMMALAI.COM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}