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john john
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Dec 21, 2018

Can a global admin see files stored on the persoanl site (OneDrive site) for end users

Our office 365 users have personal sites, where these sites have urls such as  @ https://****-my.sharepoint.com/personal/****_**8_com . Now from time to time i received requests from users that they ...
  • ChrisWebbTech's avatar
    Dec 21, 2018
    Global admins cannot see files by default, you can however go add yourself explicitly to user onedrives in order to see the files via the admin center > Users > onedrive section where you can add yourself.
    Or via SharePoint Powershell using set-spouser -site "url" -loginname username -issitecollectionadmin $true

    Make sure your users are using the "Share" button, picking their option to share (Anonymous, all org, specific user) and then copy link or send message and not copying URL's from the top of their browser to link others files.

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