One Drive For Business Folder Collaboration To Other ODFB Users

In this blog, you will learn about One Drive For Business Folder Collaboration to other ODFB Users.

Introduction 

 

Hi guys, let's try to explore a smart process of ODFB specific folders collaboration/permission granting to another ODFB User Account within the same tenant.

 

The permission types possible are:

• Read
• Contribute
• Full Control

Prerequisites

 

- All the Source and Target User Accounts must be ODFB provisioned along with a Microsoft E3-E5 license 

- Windows PowerShell ISE with all PnP packages, modules to be installed 

- Service Account of the Tenant Account to run the PnP script seamlessly

- CSV report with all the columns

 

UserEmail	Folder	Role	SiteURL
[email protected]	/personal/veera_kaveri_sample_com/Documents/New Joinees Tasks	Read	https://sample-my.sharepoint.com/personal/veera_kaveri_sample_com
[email protected]	/personal/veera_kaveri_sample_com/Documents/BoxUpdate	Contribute	https://sample-my.sharepoint.com/personal/veera_kaveri_sample_com
[email protected]	/personal/veera_kaveri_sample_com/Documents/Resumes	Full Control	https://sample-my.sharepoint.com/personal/veera_kaveri_sample_com

 

Process

 

Use the below PnP script after configuring the below-higlighted areas and run it to have the above permission roles assigned to the above folder specific ODFB User Accounts.

#Variables
$CSVPath = "D:\Bharat\ODFB\OnedriveUsers1.csv"
$ListName = "Documents"
#Get data from CSV
$CSVData = Import - Csv $CSVPath
#Iterate through each row in CSV
ForEach($Row in $CSVData) {
    Try {
        #Connect to SharePoint Online Site
        Write - host "Connecting to Site: "
        $Row.SiteURL
        Connect - PnPOnline - Url $Row.SiteURL - UseWebLogin
        Set - PnPFolderPermission - List $ListName - Identity $Row.Folder - User $UserAccount - AddRole $Row.Role
        DisConnect - PnPOnline
    }
    Catch {
        write - host - f Red "Error Adding User to Group:"
        $_.Exception.Message
    }
}

Once the above script is run automatically, all the above-mentioned specific folders from their respective ODFB account get permission shared with the Role type mentioned to the User Email mentioned in the CSV rows.

 

Conclusion

 

The entire above process can be used for bulk user accounts permissions/collaborations to various ODFB Folders via PnP scripting by just passing the CSV report prepared in the above format. 

 

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