How to Get Administrative Access to the OneDrive for Business Environment of a User
If you are familiar with SharePoint Online, you might recognize some of these steps to get administrative access.
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Go to the Office 365 admin portal.
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Open the SharePoint admin center.
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On the left, choose user profiles.
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Choose Manage User Profiles (see figure 2).
Figure 2: Manage User Profiles
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Find the user you would like to have access to. For this article, we’re using Sara Davis.
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Open the item menu of the user.
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Choose Manage site collection owners (see figure 3).
Figure 3: For administrative access to OneDrive for Business, click the Manage User Profiles item menu
Add your administrator account (figure 4) to the list of site collection administrators.
Figure 4: OneDrive for Business site collection admin
After executing the steps above, you will see all files and folders (figure 5) for the current user.
Figure 5: You now have administrative access to the user’s OneDrive for Business account
Ref: https://www.itunity.com/article/administrative-access-onedrive-business-environment-user-2792
