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Removing a User
When i remove a user from Office365 Admin, shouldn't it also remove that user from SharePoint? I should not have to go in and remove the users from all SharePoint sites where they exist, right?
It removes them from *some* locations, others you might want to clean up manually. There's a detailed article on this here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3026385/how-to-remove-users-from-sharepoint-online
There's also the option that the sync jobs fail, so the user object remains in the user profile list. In such occasions you might have to raise a support case.
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It removes them from *some* locations, others you might want to clean up manually. There's a detailed article on this here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3026385/how-to-remove-users-from-sharepoint-online
There's also the option that the sync jobs fail, so the user object remains in the user profile list. In such occasions you might have to raise a support case.
A bigger bummer was the fact that removing a user that was Term store admin didn't clean up the permissions on the store, resulting in very observable delays on any page with managed metadata. Now that was a fun issue to troubleshoot over a several month period...
