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Paul Frederickson
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Apr 14, 2025

What does the archive experience for OneDrive look like after the change to unlicensed accounts?

Based on this change, OneDrive accounts will be set to archive:

Unlicensed OneDrive accounts subject to a retention policy, retention period, or legal hold will be automatically archived after 93 days of license removal.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/unlicensed-onedrive-accounts#enforcement-of-policy-changes-for-unlicensed-onedrive-accounts

To test the experience, we attempted to run the PowerShell script used to archive a SharePoint site to a OneDrive site:

Set-SPOSiteArchiveState

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-online/set-spositearchivestate?view=sharepoint-ps

However, it does not appear that a OneDrive site type is supported with this script.

Does anyone know what "archived" actually means in the context of a OneDrive account? Also, what will the experience be both from a user perspective and from an admin perspective?

In SharePoint, there's a message indicating the site is in an archived state and admins can see a list of all archived sites via the admin center. I think a lot of confusion would be avoided if OneDrive "sites" appeared in a list like SharePoint sites do within the SharePoint admin center.

Thank you!

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