Office 365 Group Storage Allocation

Julien Gares
Iron Contributor
Aug 04, 2016
Funny timimg, I came across that article today! https://support.office.com/en-us/article/SharePoint-Online-software-boundaries-and-limits-8f34ff47-b749-408b-abc0-b605e1f6d498 very informative indeed. thank you.

But see this i where it get confusing: jcgonzalezmartin said "Just to be clear, Group files can hold up to 1 TB of data but it counts against your SPO tenant storage... "
Ok so, Does that mean that if my tenant has 2T and 1 group upload 1T there is only 1T left to be shared between other groups and site?

or ..

As most seems to suggest, each group get 1T. Then If 3 groups upload 1T i would effectively use 3T of storage? (despite my 2T tenant limit?)

I'm sorry for insisting, but I do need to be 100% sure of the storage mechanism for O365 groups as we are currently scoping network share migration to Office 365 group.
Obviously, I would like to believe the second option is the correct one :)

cfiessinger, SanthoshB1 thanks for the PS link, but for some reason, I cannot invok the -identiy parameter with the Get-sposite cmdlets

Eric Adler Thank you for sharing this hidden gem. I have used report for OnedDrive & Sp, but never noticed that dropdown.
- SanthoshB1
  Bronze Contributor
  Aug 04, 2016
  Julien Gares Regarding storage, unfornately, option 1 is correct.
  - Julien Gares
    Iron Contributor
    Aug 05, 2016
    Thank you all for your quick responses.
    
    I'm not a native english speaker, but jcgonzalezmartin definition is for me the less confusing:
    
    "Group files can hold up to 1 TB of data but it counts against your SPO tenant storage."
    
    Thanks for the links and the scripts, I'll definitly include quota limitation in the scoping.
- SanthoshB1
  Bronze Contributor
  Aug 04, 2016
  Julien Gares Here is the modified script to get the storage for specific O365 group. You need to use both SharePoint and Exchnage connections.
  
  Input Parameter
  $GName=”o365GroupName”
  $o365DomainName="o365DomainName"
  
  $SPOAdminCenterUrl="https://"+ $o365DomainName +"-admin.sharepoint.com/"
  $Groups=Get-UnifiedGroup -identity $GName
  $SPO365GroupFilesUrl=$Groups.SharePointSiteUrl
  $credential = get-credential
  Connect-SPOService -Url $SPOAdminCenterUrl -Credential $credential
  $site=Get-SPOSite -Identity $SPO365GroupFilesUrl$GName -Detailed
  New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property @{
  GroupName=$site.Title
  CurrentStorage=$site.StorageUsageCurrent
  StorageQuota=$site.StorageQuota
  StorageQuotaWarningLevel=$site.StorageQuotaWarningLevel
  }|select GroupName, CurrentStorage, StorageQuota, StorageQuotaWarningLevel
- Deleted
  Aug 04, 2016
  If you have your data on automatic it will automatic give it 1 tb per group. This said it if you only have 2 tb and 3 groups you will get a notification once you are hitting the 2 tb to buy more storage.
  
  so you are correct 1 tb for a group full leaves 1 tb for groups and other sites.
  
  KR,
  
  Paul

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