How to Transfer OneDrive Ownership When an Employee Leaves
What Microsoft supports for free, why the widely-copied Set-SPOUser snippet does the wrong thing, and how to compare free, scripted and automated offboarding.
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Microsoft 365 offboarding, written for the admin doing it
Practical guides for IT teams handling employee departures in Microsoft 365 — what the platform supports, where the manual process breaks, and what to do instead.
Why Set-SPOUser Does Not Transfer OneDrive Files
The cmdlet most offboarding scripts get wrong. What -IsSiteCollectionAdmin actually grants, why it reports success while moving nothing, and the four ownership records that have to be handled separately.
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Who Should Own a Departing Employee's SharePoint Sites
Site owner, site collection administrator and item ownership are three different records. Why reassigning the first changes nothing else, and how personal OneDrive sites end up orphaned.
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