Last updated on January 26, 2021
Note – 2021-01-26 – This article is still totally valid, but check the comment section below for an alternate method for getting your tenant enabled for > 5 TB storage.
OneDrive for Business offers “unlimited” storage. You would be excused if you were sure that the limit was 1 TB because that is what it is set to by default, Microsoft would prefer it if you didn’t exercise this particular option. Individual users can’t change their limits, and administrators can only up that limit to 5 TB. Increasing it beyond that limit requires extra steps. I have just gone through those steps for my own OneDrive for business, and thought that I would share the experience.
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- Microsoft’s service description for OneDrive for Business promises “beyond 1 TB, to unlimited” storage. In reality, most enterprise Office 365 accounts have 5 TB storage and won’t need to go further. But you can first to 25 TB and then even more in the form of SharePoint sites. You just have to t.
In that section, you will find the option to claim 100 GB of free storage for OneDrive. Once you hit that, all you need to click is “claim my storage,” and, boom, you have it! The only caveat is that this storage only lasts for two years, so if you find yourself enjoying the extra space, you will have to pay for it eventually.
The stratification of the different OneDrive for Business storage options has been outlined effectively by Joel Oleson in his article Three Tiers to Increase to Unlimited Storage in OneDrive for Business.
Login to OneDrive with your Microsoft or Office 365 account. We’re no longer planning to offer unlimited storage to Office 365 Home, Personal, or University subscribers. Starting now, those subscriptions will include 1 TB of OneDrive storage. 100 GB and 200 GB paid plans are going away as an option for new users and will be replaced with a 50 GB plan for $1.99 per month in early 2016.
The bottom line is that you must increase the quota limit for a OneDrive in stages. These stages are:
- Increase quota from 1 TB to 5TB
- Reach 90% of the OneDrive storage limit (4.5 TB)
- Open a support ticket to turn on “Boost Quota” for the tenant
- Increase quota from 5 TB to 25TB
- Reach 90% of the OneDrive storage limit (22.5 TB)
- Open a support ticket to turn create a new site collection with 25 TB quota
- Repeat steps 5 & 6 as necessary
I have just completed step 4, so that’s as far as this post will go. It likely goes without saying, but all of the operations below require tenant admin permissions.
Increase from the default limit to 5 TB
Dbeaver for oracle. To increase a user’s OneDrive limit from the default of 1 TB to 5TB, it is a simple matter of running a PowerShell command, as documented in Change a specific user’s OneDrive storage space.
The number 5,242,880 (5 TB) used for the storage quota must be precise.
The default value for the tenant itself can be changed as well, so that this first step isn’t necessary for new users. See Set the default storage space for OneDrive users for details. It should be noted that the maximum value that you can set as a default is 5120 (5TB). If it’s set any higher, it won’t be saved.
Increasing storage limit to 25 TB
Before you can set the limit any higher, you must first fill the OneDrive to 90% of its capacity, or 4.5 TB. This happened to me a few weeks ago and I started getting weekly “approaching your capacity” messages. Vision pro for mac. At this point I opened a support ticket, and this is where the fun started.
Onedrive Free Storage
I’ll spare you the back and forth email exchange, but a little snippet of the conversation went something like the following. Each line is an action or an email:
I include the above partly because you might want the chuckle, but mostly to let you know not to give up in this. It’s advertised, and you paid for it.
The command that I used to enable this, once support had turned on the boost storage feature was:
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The number 26,214,400 (25 TB) must be used precisely.
In any event, after running the above command, my storage limit is now at 25 TB.
The particularly interesting thing to note here is that because the “Boost storage” feature is set at the tenant level, any other OneDrives in the tenant can have their limits increased without contacting support. All that is necessary is the PowerShell script above. However, the drive must still reach 90% capacity before it can be increased.
Onedrive Unlimited Storage
Should I hit the next limit, I’ll report back here.
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