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Increasing OneDrive Storage Quota

July 20, 2017 | by iaur | posted as Configuration, OneDrive 365

Scenario : You wants to increase storage quota

  • Tenant will have unlimited storage quota if the number of licensed reached 5 count for any SKU that has OneDrive Plan 2
  • You can only increase it up to 25 TB, above that require Microsoft 365 support

Requisites

  • SPO Module for Windows PowerShell
  • First release for release preference
    • Admin Center> Settings> Organization Profile > First Release for Everyone (24 hours for replication)
  • Users must be provisioned with OneDrive

Steps

To increase it: PowerShell scripting is needed

  • Open Windows PowerShell as an Admin
  • Connect to SPO Service
Connecting to SPO
  • Increase for the entire tenant
Set-SPOTenant -OneDriveStorageQuota  2621440

524288 x 5

  • Increase for each user
Set-SPOSite -Identity https://yourmysiteurl -StorageQuota 5242880

Example

Set-SPOSite -Identity https://fresheggs-my.sharepoint.com/personal/admin_makeadent_xyz -StorageQuota 5242880

Verify Storage Quota

Via PowerShell

Get-SPOSite -Identity https://yourmysiteur | fl

  • Example
Get-SPOSite -Identity https://fresheggs-my.sharepoint.com/personal/admin_makeadent_xyz | fl
Machine generated alternative text: Administrator: Windows PowerSheII Wi ndows powershel 1 opyright (C) 2016 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. PS . u. fernandez> PS C: . u. fernandez> PS C: 1 . u. fernandez> 5242880 -StorageQuota PS C: 1 . u. fernandez> L as tContentModi fi edDate Status ResourceUsageCurrent ResourceUsageAverage StorageUsageCurrent Locklssue ebscount ompati bi 1 i tyL eve 1 Di s abl eshari ngForNonOwnersStatus L ocal eld L ockstate wner StorageQuota StorageQuotaWarni ngL eve 1 ResourceQuota ResourceQuotaWarni ngL eve 1 empl ate it le Connect—SPOSe rvi ce -url https : //fresheggs—admi n . sharepoi nt . com set-sposi te Get-sposi te -Identi ty https : //fresheggs—my. sharepoi nt . com/personal / admi n __n -Identi ty https : //fresheggs—my. sharepoi nt . com/personal / admi n __n . 7/20/2017 AM Active 15 https : //f resheggs —my. sharepoi nt . com/personal / admi n_makeadent_xyz 1033 Unl Ock admi namakeadent . xyz 5242880 . 4718591 300 . 200 SPSPERS#IO Bernie Lou Fernandez

Via Admin Center

Admin Center > Active user> Choose the user> Navigate to OneDrive Settings

Machine generated alternative text: ce 365 Home Users Active users Guest users Admin Home > Active users + Add a user D Mail Settings OneDrive Settings Access Quote View and edit folders and files You will be granted permissions to manage OneDrive Storage used : O % of 5120 GB

Via Sync Client

  • Exit sync client if needed
Machine generated alternative text: Microsoft OneDrive Settings Account Newvork Office About OneDrive - FreshEgg (admin@makeadent.xyz) 2 ME of 5, 120 GE cloud storage used Manace storaae Unlink this PC I loca bon is synong OneDrive - FreshEgg O KB used on this PC Add an account Choose folders Stoo sync

Reference

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/educloud/2017/05/22/increase-onedrive-for-business-storage-to-5tb/

How to Enable Unlimited Storage in OneDrive for Business

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