If you are anything else than this – steps below will not work. Make sure you are a licensed Office 365 Global Administrator.If you are an Office 365 Global Administrator
Allow any other user to access someone else’s OneDrive account (this might be a good option to use if say, you want a colleague to access their departing team member’s OneDrive).Access yourself, if you are a Global Administrator.There are two ways to access someone else’s OneDrive:
How to gain access to an employee’s OneDrive account I tried to access John’s OneDrive, being a Company Administrator (Office 365 Global Admin) and this is a message I got when I did that: Even Global Office 365 administrators do not have access to other users’ OneDrive without steps outlined below. Files and folders can only be seen by other employees if they have been shared by the OneDrive owners themselves. With this post, I would like to share a few techniques for you to do this.īefore we proceed further, it is important to note that user’s OneDrive account is private by default. The bottom line is – you need to access someone else’s OneDrive. Or, maybe someone just left on vacation and forgot to publish a very important Sales Proposal to SharePoint. Your employee left or is about to leave the organization, but has left lots of valuable intellectual property in his or her OneDrive repository.