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OneDrive + Get-PnPRecycleBinItem : Access denied. You do not have permission
Hi
Firstly, I am not sure this bug or by design 🤔 however, it is impeding my progress.
Anyway, I am looking to initially, review the deleted files in a set of User's ODFB recycle bins. To do this I thought the best approach is PowerShell.
# connect to the user's ODFB
Connect-PnPOnline -Url $ODFBUserUrl -SPOManagementShell # -UseWebLogin
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Blue (Get-PnPSite).Url
Get-PnPRecycleBinItem | Select-object -First 100 Title, DirName, DeletedByName, DeletedDate, DeletedDateLocalFormatted
Get-PnPRecycleBinItem : Access denied. You do not have permission to perform this action or access this resource.
I am an Office 365 global & SharePoint admin and I have even added myself as the MySIte Secondary Admin:
However I am still hitting this permissions issue. Do I need to add myself as a site collection admin to the OneDrive of each user - assuming I have permissions to do that.
I believe the Secondary admin setting you have pictured only applies to new My Sites.
For existing My Sites/OneDrive sites, you will probably have to add yourself directly as a Site Collection Admin for the ones you are trying to access.
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I believe the Secondary admin setting you have pictured only applies to new My Sites.
For existing My Sites/OneDrive sites, you will probably have to add yourself directly as a Site Collection Admin for the ones you are trying to access.
kevinmckeown8 You are 100% correct.
Located, https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/How-to-add-a-secondary-0b878d98?redir=0
From this I simply added:
Set-SPOUser -LoginName $ODFBSecondaryAdmin -Site $ODFBUserUrl -IsSiteCollectionAdmin $True
Then I am able to inspect each user's Recycle bin and filter by Deleted Date as desired. Happy days!
