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What happens to a user's OneDrive when they are disabled?
Hi all, as the title says: What happens to a user's OneDrive when they are disabled? Background: when we off-board our departing/departed users, we disable the AD account, convert the mailbox to a s...
No automatic deletion will be triggered (this only happens when the account is marked for deletion, as detailed here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/retention-and-deletion). And I'm pretty sure that puts you in unsupported configuration/violation of the license terms, but that's for Microsoft to clarify, so best contact them.
We follow a similar termination process (though we don't convert to shared mailboxes). We just disable everything and remove all licenses for 6 months before deleting. Does anyone know what happens to *shared file links* to a disabled account? I assume they become unusable, but can anyone confirm?
- This is kind of old now, but we just renamed some disabled users and then we got some incidents of users not being able to access what the disabled user previously shared.
So no, sharing internal is not stopped by disabling users.
I don't know about external sharing but we are about to test it
