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The Allow admin access to user data setting on inSync Client controls whether the administrator can access the user data. When this setting is enabled from the inSync Management Console, inSync administrators can download user's backed up data.

This article describes the impact that Allow admin access to user data setting has while switching a user from one profile to another.

For the sake of simplicity, Profile-1 is considered as old/original profile and Profile-2 is considered as new profile in this article.

The impact is explained with the help of various scenarios below.

Scenario-1: User is moved from Profile-1 to Profile-2 with the profile settings as below

Impact: User migration from Profile-1 to Profile-2 completes seamlessly on inSync Management Console without any warnings or error messages. inSync administrator can access and download the user data even after the profile change.

Scenario-2: User is moved from Profile-1 to Profile-2 with the profile settings as below

Impact: User migration from Profile-1 to Profile-2 completes seamlessly on inSync Management Console without any warnings or error messages. inSync administrator cannot access and download the user data in the changed profile (Profile-2). If the administrator tires to access the user's data assigned with Profile-2, the below warning is displayed.

Scenario-3: User is moved from Profile-1 to Profile-2 with the profile settings as below

Impact: In this migration, the administrators of Profile-2 can get an unintended access to the user's data if the user migrates to the profile. To prevent this breach of data privacy inSync does not allow the user migration from Profile-1 to Profile-2. The below error is displayed.

To enable the data access and download, administrators can request the user to disable the Data Privacy setting from the inSync Client.

💡 Tip

The Data Privacy setting is active on the inSync Client only when the inSync administrator has made it available to the inSync user from the profile settings.

Scenario-4: User is moved from Profile-1 to Profile-2 with the profile settings as below

Impact: Since there is no breach of user's data privacy, migration from Profile-1 to Profile-2 completes seamlessly on inSync Management Console without any warnings or error messages. inSync administrator cannot access and download the user data after the profile change.

Scenario-5: inSync Client is installed on a new device and user is assigned with a profile with Allow admin access to user data disabled

Impact: After inSync Client activation, user can access data on the new device. User can login to inSync web to see the data from both the devices. inSync administrator, however, cannot access the user data as the Allow admin access to user data setting is disabled on the client.