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Roger Roger's avatar
Roger Roger
Iron Contributor
May 14, 2018

copy files

Hi experts

one 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.

microsoft 365 groups
office 365
onedrive

14 Replies

  • Bas Wijdenes's avatar
    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's avatar
      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://dubaiaviationcorp-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

       

       

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        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's avatar
      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

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    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's avatar
      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?

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        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's avatar
      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

      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        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.
      • Anonymous's avatar
        Anonymous
        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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