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Manage OneDrive Profiles

To get OneDrive Profiles for licensed users or users that were previously licensed, go to the Sharepoint Admin center. You can grant a user access to another user's OneDrive files. This is useful for the successor of a departed employee.

In the Sharepoint Admin Center, click More Features. Under User profiles, click Open.

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Click Manage User Profiles.

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In the search box, type the name of the user and click Find. 

OneDrive User Profile Search

In the search results, click the profile you want to manage.

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A menu pops open; click Manage site collection owner.

Manage OneDrive Profile

In the Site Collection Administrators box, type the name of an administrator to add, or choose from the list. Then click OK.

OneDrive - Add Site Collection Administrator

The account that was granted access can access the files by going to the OneDrive URL of that specific account. In the example below, replace <tenantname> with the Tenant name and user_name_example_com with the account's email address, replacing the @, periods and dashes with underscores.

https://<tenantname>-my.sharepoint.com/personal/user_name_example_com/

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