(You might need to select Show all to see the list of admin centers.) In the left pane, select Admin centers > SharePoint. If you get a message that you don't have permission to access the admin center, then you don't have administrator permissions in your organization.

Sign in to the admin center as a global admin or SharePoint admin. You can also grant access to another user to access a former employee's OneDrive. When you move or copy documents that have version history, only the latest version is moved.Īdministrative options for an active user under the OneDrive tab in the Microsoft 365 admin center are currently not supported for multi-geo tenants. You can move or copy up to 500 MB of files and folders at a time. Download the files to your computer, or select Move to or Copy to to move or copy them to your own OneDrive or to a shared library. Select the link to open the file location. Under Get access to files, select Create link to files. On the user properties page, select OneDrive. In the admin center, go to the Users > Active users page. To preserve a former user's OneDrive files, first give yourself access to their OneDrive, and then move the files you want to keep. If you don't restore a user account within this time, their OneDrive content is deleted. Learn how to set the OneDrive retention for deleted users. If you delete the user's account, you have 30 days by default to access the former user's OneDrive data.

If you remove a user's license but don't delete the account, you can give yourself access to the content in the user's OneDrive. Access a former user's OneDrive documents When an employee leaves your organization, you'll want to access their OneDrive and Outlook data, back it up, and choose whether to give it to another employee.

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