Reassign OneDrive Permissions

Question

Unfortunately, one of our employees is not able to return to his tasks anymore. Now I have his delegate who urgently needs access to OneDrive of the mentioned person. What would be the best way to achieve that ? Is there a way to add permissions so that the delegate can access data stored in other person's OneDrive folder and subfolders.

Thanks a lot.

Answer 1

Hi @Eduard Filimonov

Yes, you could give another employee access to one employee's OneDrive data.

The administrator could grant access to another user to access a former employee's OneDrive data in Microsoft 365 Admin Center.

• Sign in to the admin center as a global admin or SharePoint admin.
• Select Show all to see the list of admin centers > In the left pane, select Admin centers > SharePoint.
• In the left pane, select More features.
• Under User profiles, select Open.
• Under People, select Manage User Profiles.
• Enter the former employee's name and select Find.
• Right-click the former employee's account name, and then choose Manage site collection owners.
• Add the another user to Site Collection Administrators and select Ok.
  
• This user will now be able to access the former employee's OneDrive using the OneDrive URL.
  Right-click the former employee again, choose “Manage Personal Site” from the context menu. Than you could access the former employee's OneDrive data.
  

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