What would a Global admin of Office 365 E3 do with regard to the access of files in my OneDrive (Does he have the permission to access my personal file in my OneDrive)?

Sajjad Fuard 1 Reputation point
2020-11-04T19:34:40.24+00:00

I have Purchased an Office 365 E3 plan from a Reseller for a price who mailed me the standard username (not customized to my name) and auto-generated password to my personal mail address. I logged in and asked me to change the password and I changed accordingly. In my account, I couldn't make any changes except verified Phone number and change of Password. and when I attempt to change my account details It says to contact IT Personnel or Admin of my organisation. I couldn't even figure out who the admin of the organization is. I contacted the reseller and he replied that he did not have the permission to access any OneDrive account and even is unable to reset the password.

I am still confused after all these happened, Whether the admin of the organization where I am just a user will be able to access my personal files and documents which are very confidential to myself.

Kindly give me the solution to my issue and instruct me the better way which I can safeguard my personal documents.

Thanks.
Best Regards,
Sajjad

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  1. Sharath Kumar Aluri 3,071 Reputation points
    2020-11-04T23:22:54.907+00:00

    If he is a Global Admin , he can do whatever he want. by default he won't be having accessing to your OneDrive/ personal site but he can give himself full access to your OneDrive / personal files if he want's there is no way to stop that. because that is the highest level of access at a Tenant.

    Thanks & Regards,

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  2. JoyZ 18,041 Reputation points
    2020-11-05T01:19:41.99+00:00

    Hi @Sajjad Fuard ,

    Quote from Microsoft:

    Global admins and SharePoint admins don't have automatic access to all sites and each user's OneDrive, but they can give themselves access to any site or OneDrive.

    Which means that the global admin has almost unlimited access to your org's settings and most of the data, so, we cannot prevent global administrators from accessing your onedrive files.

    In addition, we recommend that you don't have more than 4 global admins because that's a security threat.

    More information for your reference:

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/sharepoint-admin-role

    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/add-users/about-admin-roles?view=o365-worldwide#security-guidelines-for-assigning-roles

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