Providing manager access to a terminated employee's OneDrive

After an employee leaves your organization, their OneDrive is scheduled for deletion. Before it's gone, it's common to provide that employee's manager with access to their OneDrive in case there are business-critical documents or resources there that need to be relocated for others to use. In this recipe, you'll learn how to provide managers with access to their former employees' OneDrive sites.

Getting ready

You must be a global or SharePoint administrator to complete these steps within the SharePoint admin center.

How to do it…

1. Go to the SharePoint admin center at https://YOURTENANT-admin.sharepoint.com.
2. Select More features from the left-side navigation menu:

   Figure 6.6 – The More features option in the SharePoint admin center's left-hand navigation menu

3. Under User profiles, click the Open button:

   Figure 6.7 – The Open button to access the User...