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Downloading a user's OneDrive data
Hi all, In our organization, before we started moving people to OneDrive, we moved the user's home directory to a backup location and deleted the directory from the our storage. This was done wit...
RahamimL you can make yourself the SiteCollection owner ( You need SharePoint Online Administrator access for this) of the users oneDrive . Navigate to the users oneDrive and use the OneDrive Sync Client to Sync the user OneDrive content.
Maruthi GaddeI want to automate everything via script and not doing it manually. I can give the site ownership to a site via the script. The only problem is how can I download the content?
- Why download the content? Just leave it in place and give anyone that needs access access to the document over time. Long as you set a preservation to store it for a long time you are good. Much easier than trying to shift files around and it doesn’t eat into your licensing / storage.
- We're talking about a user that left the organization.
We want to move the user's data to a backup tape and we already have a script that does this for users on our local storage. Now we want the script to do the same thing for users in OneDrive.- Yeah and so am I. Why waste the tape and time doing that when you can just mark set OneDrive preservation and keep the data as long as you would tape, in place for 7 years or whatever you wanted and skip that step. You delete the user the data(site) stays for as long as the preservation is set.
