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Why is manager getting this email.. "FW: Final Notice: Joe Blogg's OneDrive for Business contents"
Usually, these emails are sent when a user account was deactivated/deleted/licence unassigned and their manager gets notified with an opportunity to save their files before they are deleted.
Ollie This has more details - https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/3042522/onedrive-for-business-retention-and-deletion including:
If the Manager field is populated for the deleted account, the manager will receive an email message that states that the site will be removed after the retention period expires, and that access to the site is granted to the manager.
Seven days before the retention period expires, a second email message will be sent to the manager or secondary owner that states that the site will be deleted in seven days.
After seven days, the profile for the deleted account is deleted from the user profile service.
For fyi - Per Microsoft, the notified email is only sent when an user acct is deleted and not disabling/blocking/unlicensing an user ..
"The retention period for cleanup of OneDrive begins when a user account is deleted from Azure Active Directory. No other action will cause the cleanup process to occur, including blocking the user from signing in or removing the user's license."
ref: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/retention-and-deletion?redirectSourcePath=%252farticle%252fef883c48-332c-42f5-8aea-f0e2366c15f9