Hi expertsone of my user has left the company and i can see his account disabled in active directory.Now his boss asks me to copy all the users file from one drive and hand over to him. how do i achieve this.

Best way is to give access to the OneDrive location and let them download the stuff they need.How to connect PowerShell to Office 365You must download and install SharePoint Online Management Shellhttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35588Run Sharepoint Online Management ShellRun as adminHow to grant admin access to OneDrive accountTo add access to Site collectionConnect-SPOService -Url https://tenant-admin.sharepoint.com -credential username@domain.orgSet-SPOUser -Site https://tenant-my.sharepoint.com/personal/targerusername_ypo_org -LoginName username@domain.org -IsSiteCollectionAdmin $true

You can also add yourself as ODFB owner using the user interface: https://www.petri.com/4-ways-add-secondary-administrator-onedrive-business

Yeah but he disabled the user aka it moves to deleted, don't think you can use UI at that point!

Hi expertsI can see this user under deleted users.Home-Users-Deleted users.Is there any way to recover data of this user, i read earlier that contents will be preserved for one month

Yes follow the posts we put to assign site collection admin to yourself or the person needing permission to the OneDrive site. You have at least 30 days to do so unless you have preservation turned way up then you have longer.

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Bas Wijdenes
Copper Contributor
May 15, 2018
You can use PowerShell to achive this (for deleted SPO sites).

Set-sposite -Identity https://DOMAIN-my.sharepoint.com/personal/bas_wijdenes_domain_com -Owner "Roger.roger@baswijdenes.com

The owner will now be able to open the onedrive with the link already provided.

If you need more help, let me know.
- Roger Roger
  Iron Contributor
  May 20, 2018
  Hi i am able to connect to shell using my credentials myuser@mydomain.com
  PS C:\Windows\system32> Connect-SPOService -Url https://mydomain-admin.sharepoint.com
  lets say deleted user is rogerfederer his domain account is roger.federer in AD and email id was roger.federer@mydomain.com
  next should i proceed with which syntax
  Set-SPOUser -Site https://mydomain-my.sharepoint.com/personal/roger_federer_mydomain.com -loginName roger.federer@mydomain.com -IsSiteCollectionAdmin $true
  or
  Set-SPOUser -Site https://mydomain-my.sharepoint.com/personal/roger.federer_mydomain.com -loginName roger.federer@mydomain.com -IsSiteCollectionAdmin $true
  
  once its done can i access his file by the rul
  
  https://mydomain-my.sharepoint.com/personal/roger_federer_mydomain_com/_layouts/15/onedrive.aspx
  - Deleted
    May 20, 2018
    probably roger.federer_domain_com but just try both you won't hurt anything trying and you'll know when you get it cause you wont' get an error.
    
    Also the -loginname is YOUR login or who you want to give access (make the site collection admin) not that user.
- Roger Roger
  Iron Contributor
  May 20, 2018
  i am getting the below error, i have installed sharepoing management shell, i am getting below error
  
  PS C:\Windows\system32> Connect-SPOService -Url https://teanant-admin.sharepoint
  .com -credential myuser@mydomain.com
  Connect-SPOService : Could not connect to SharePoint Online.
  At line:1 char:1
  + Connect-SPOService -Url https://teanant-admin.sharepoint.com -credential
  myuser ...
  + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  ~~~
  + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Connect-SPOService], InvalidO
  perationException
  + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.InvalidOperationException,Microsoft.Onlin
  e.SharePoint.PowerShell.ConnectSPOService
  
  even i tried both but i could not connect
  Connect-SPOService -Url https://mydomain-my.sharepoint.com -credential myuser@mydomain.com
  Connect-SPOService -Url https://mydomain-admin..sharepoint.com -credential myuser@mydomain.com
Deleted
May 14, 2018
Best way is to give access to the OneDrive location and let them download the stuff they need.

How to connect PowerShell to Office 365

You must download and install SharePoint Online Management Shell
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35588
Run Sharepoint Online Management Shell
Run as admin

How to grant admin access to OneDrive account

To add access to Site collection
Connect-SPOService -Url https://tenant-admin.sharepoint.com -credential username@domain.org
Set-SPOUser -Site https://tenant-my.sharepoint.com/personal/targerusername_ypo_org -LoginName username@domain.org -IsSiteCollectionAdmin $true
- Roger Roger
  Iron Contributor
  May 15, 2018
  Connect-SPOService -Url https://teanant-admin.sharepoint.com -credential username@domain.org
  
  is username@domain.org is deleted users account?
  
  Set-SPOUser -Site https://tenant-my.sharepoint.com/personal/targerusername_domain_org -LoginName
  username@domain.org -IsSiteCollectionAdmin $true
  
  is username@domain.org is deleted users account?
  - Deleted
    May 15, 2018
    The first part is connecting to your tenant and that is your admin login. The 2nd part is the user you want to add to the site as a site collection admin. So either you or the person wanting access to the files account.
- Roger Roger
  Iron Contributor
  May 15, 2018
  Hi experts
  I can see this user under deleted users.
  Home-Users-Deleted users.
  Is there any way to recover data of this user, i read earlier that contents will be preserved for one month
  - Deleted
    May 15, 2018
    Yes follow the posts we put to assign site collection admin to yourself or the person needing permission to the OneDrive site. You have at least 30 days to do so unless you have preservation turned way up then you have longer.
- jcgonzalezmartin
  MVP
  May 14, 2018
  You can also add yourself as ODFB owner using the user interface: https://www.petri.com/4-ways-add-secondary-administrator-onedrive-business
  - Deleted
    May 14, 2018
    Yeah but he disabled the user aka it moves to deleted, don't think you can use UI at that point!

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