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StefanFried
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Apr 13, 2017

User leaves organization - what happens with all the files ?

I haven't found any tech article , therefore i just raise this question in here.   A user has uploaded files to onedrive. Some of them are shared...some are not. So what happens, if the user objec...
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kvaden357
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Mar 27, 2020

Lou_Mickley  "A little dated"....as in almost 3 years old.  lol

I and others would like to hear thoughts on best practice/solutions for this situation.

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Lou_Mickley
Brass Contributor
Apr 09, 2020

When a user is deleted in AD/AAD, O365 licensed revoked, the OneDrive library actively continues on INCLUDING existing sharing permissions until the tenant-wide OneDrive admin retention value counts down to 0 - then all the files are deleted into recycle bin, and 93 days later, permanently deleted.  These files can only be retrieved from the recycle bin via PowerShell since the user no longer active.

If you have access delegation turned on the Manager (defined in the AD attribute) automatically gets read/write access and if no manager defined, the defined secondary admin can have access automatically granted.

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