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Ted McLaughlin
Brass Contributor
May 23, 2018

Changing ODFB site ownership after user left the company

Unfortunately my company doesn't delete users when they leave, (they just get put in a special OU), so the ODFB thing of reverting a site to their boss never kicks in.   So now I'm trying to change...
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jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
May 23, 2018
Have you tried to add the new admins through the Office 365 Portal (user details pane) or the user profiles options in the SPO Admin Center?
Ted McLaughlin's avatar
Ted McLaughlin
Brass Contributor
May 23, 2018

Sorry, I should have pointed out that my goal was to make this into a script that I could run against a spreadsheet of users who had left the company.

 

With thousands of users I have a feeling that this is going to be happening a lot.  One manager mentioned just making it part of the offboarding process that all employess account's undergo.  If that happens I'll have to do this for every user who leaves the company, and I SERIOUSLY do not want to have to do that manually.  My hope is that I can get a weekly spreadsheet of everyone who has left the company and then run this script against that.


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    May 23, 2018

    Here is my notes, make sure you have the latest powershell module installed, and make sure you connect to the -admin tenant as shown below. and make sure you run the SharePoint Online Powershell that gets installed as Admin.

     

    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 globaladminusername@tenant.org
    Set-SPOUser -Site https://tenant-my.sharepoint.com/personal/targerusername_tenant_org -LoginName usernamethatneedsadded@tenant.org -IsSiteCollectionAdmin $true

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