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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...
They get marked for deletion in 365 and deleted after 30 days. However if you have the Retention/ preservation policies in place the mailbox / onedrive will stay and you can access them via security and compliance center to search and export any data you might need later. You can also directly access them if needed as well.
And for those who are required to have a tape backup what do you suggest?
- My understanding is that OneDrive that is under a retention policy does not require a license. Our issue is that we are sort of unique as we have several hundred users that are on employed for 6 months to a year and then a year to a year and a half later they come back to do the same job. As far as I know, we can't reassign their OneDrive back to them. One issue I can foresee is that the URL for their OneDrive is based on their user name and when they come back, Generally they get the same user name (FirstName.LastName). My initial thought is to use PS to zip up their OneDrive and store it in SharePoint or on one of our internal servers. Unless someone knows how to reattach their OneDrive to a new account.
ChrisWebbTech - as far as I know, you can let user's data stay on OneDrive, but then you have to pay for license. If you stop the payment, you lost data in user interface immediately, definitively after retention period.
How this could be done as admin for user who left the organization? When I will go in Admin Console, Compliance, eDiscovery, I wil create there Case in in the Case the search, I can select user for Exchange, but for OneDrive/Sharepoint there isn't possible to select OneDrive, only Sharepoint web collections.
Kind regards
Jindrich
- Look at security and compliance center. Should be able to search the onedrive and then export that data that’s in it via a applet (use IE) to download everything if you have to have tape. There are also backup vendors that can talk right to 365 and backup to tape too.
