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Microsoft is limiting the OneDrive space to Office 365 A1 users to 100GB per user and 100TB for entire tenants, and it might not be enough
The change is rolling out this month.
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Published onFebruary 12, 2024
published onFebruary 12, 2024
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Office 365 A1 license customers will be limited to 100GB of OneDrive space for personal profiles and 100TB of OneDrive space for entire tenants, with the change rolling out effectively over this month, according to Microsoft’slatest blog post.
Effective February 2024, users of Office 365 A1 license (free subscription) will be limited to a maximum of 100GB for OneDrive strage, within the 100TB of pooled storage for the school tenant. IT Admins have the flexibility to set a lower limit for A1 users.
It is quite the downgrade considering, that OneDrive was (and still is, until the change is implemented effectively) providing Microsoft 365 A1 users with a space of 1TB, according to Microsoft, and now the Redmond-based tech giant cut down to 10% of that storage.
Microsoft says the change is necessary to increase the security of the platform.
Some of the benefits we expect to see include helping institutions reduce some of the security risks associated with legacy storage and data sprawl, a top concern for most chief risk officers, while also reducing our shared environmental footprint.
However,some usersare not happy with decision, and many of them complained that Microsoft hasn’t issued a clear warning that their OneDrive space will be reduces.
No notifications have been sent. I asked the support engineer and he was like “Um, not I believe there was no prior warning. I got a lot of tickets regarding this so I believe there was no prior notice”. WTF?! We got close to 1000 users (staff and students). I only got to know this because a user complained about her OneDrive showing a 100GB limit (instead of the usual 1TB). This is rolling out as we speak! I don’t believe this!
However, Microsoft made it clear last summer that these changes were going to be implemented, andwe also reported it, back then.
But the new changes might not be suitable for large communities, such as faculties with thousands of students, asone Reddit usernotes:
Let’s say you’re an organization that purchases 4,000 A3 for Faculty licenses. Let’s say you have 20,000 students. That would give you a 300TB pooled storage quota that is shared across Exchange Online and SharePoint Online. That means Microsoft is only giving anaverage of 12.5GBfor everything they need to store in their Exchange mailbox and personal OneDrive, plus any usage they would put into Teams/SharePoint sites and shared Exchange mailboxes/resources.
It’s worth mentioning that the limiting will only be affecting the A1 license users, as A3 and A5 still have 1 TB of OneDrive storage. However, many users in the Reddit threads believe this could be the end for Microsoft cloud services, unless the Redmond-based tech giant comes with another solution.
More about the topics:Microsoft 365,onedrive
Flavius Floare
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Flavius is a writer and a media content producer with a particular interest in technology, gaming, media, film and storytelling.
He’s always curious and ready to take on everything new in the tech world, covering Microsoft’s products on a daily basis. The passion for gaming and hardware feeds his journalistic approach, making him a great researcher and news writer that’s always ready to bring you the bleeding edge!
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