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Christopher Clay
Jan 18, 2017Copper Contributor
How do I recover documents from a terminated employee's OneDrive
I am running into a situation where I have a terminated employee, and OneDrive kicks off its automatic process of making the listed manager the Admin of the account thus granting access to the OneDri...
Brent Ellis
Jan 19, 2017Silver Contributor
We've also started giving the managers the option of putting an indefinite eDiscovery hold on the OneDrive site, that will prevent O365 from deleting it after 30 days. I know you can also extend the deletion time frame indefinitely.
Most of the time, we find managers think they want all the files, then just copy them over and never look at them again, and it bulks up their OneDrive, so we encourage just going into the original OneDrive anytime they think they need something.
Most of the time, we find managers think they want all the files, then just copy them over and never look at them again, and it bulks up their OneDrive, so we encourage just going into the original OneDrive anytime they think they need something.
- Christopher ClayJan 19, 2017Copper ContributorWouldn't this practice soak up a lot of storage space over time?
- Brent EllisJan 19, 2017Silver ContributorWe don't have a huge user base, so probably not as much of an impact to us, but hypothetically it could. But with indefinite storage pretty much offered in all enterprise OD4B accounts, it doesnt seem to be of any concern to Microsoft.