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john john
Dec 21, 2018Steel Contributor
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 ...
- Dec 21, 2018Global 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.
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.
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.
- Stephen308Sep 25, 2023Copper ContributorThank Chris,