Allow an Admin to search students OneDrive folders

[petben]

As an admin I need to be able to search students OneDrive's to find 'lost' files or investigate a bullying etc incident. I have created a group 'OneDrive Admins' and added myself (I am also a global admin of Sharepoint/365 generally). I have added this group as 'site collection administrator' to a users site.

 

I can open and browse the site, I can see the group listed as an 'Owner' on every file/folder in the users OneDrive, BUT searching never returns anything.

 

 

mmm ideas?

[DrCheese]

yes it's rubbish, even if you boot yourself into a users onedrive, searching... searches your own.

 

The supported way to do this is via the search/compliance centre & just set the filter to everything. The nasty way is just resetting the users password & logging on as them...

[mavhc]

You'd think there would be a tool to change a password, and then change it back by replacing the old saved hash

[petben]

I find it does search the users OneDrive, but it only returns in the results files that have been shared in some way (Shared to anyone, not me specifically).

[MartinT]

The best way to do this is to use Purview (previously Compliance) and perform an eDiscovery search where you can specify OneDrives.

[petben]

this explains it, but it would be nice for education to be able to bypass this on student accounts....harmful content, child protection blah blah etc etc

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/troubleshoot/search/search-private-content

[MartinT]

this explains it, but it would be nice for education to be able to bypass this on student accounts....harmful content, child protection blah blah etc etc

 

We can bypass this with our Barracuda cloud-to-cloud backup, but admittedly that will only suit a few here.