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New Stream Webpart - Disappointing
The new Stream Webpart has just come through to our tenant and started to set it up to see how it actually works. Quite disappointing so far, and not fit for purpose in our video architecture. I ...
I just don't think that's true. The total storage we have available in SharePoint is far less than it would be if it included the 1TB for each of our users, and the SP service description explicitly says (in the footnotes) that total storage per organization does not include the OneDrive created for each licensed user. I won't take up more space here arguing about it, but it looks like others have had this question before. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/can-i-transfer-onedrive-for-business-storagequota/b4250bad-30a9-476e-9bad-9a8d5b2f522c
I agree - your OneDrive storage is completely separate from your overall SharePoint storage quota. What you see in the SharePoint Admin Center is specifically for SharePoint and is calculated as a base amount of storage (per tenant) plus additional storage per license (amount depends on the license).
So, in addition to the SharePoint storage, each user gets 1TB for their OneDrive account which can "theoretically" be increased to 5TB (per user) by asking Microsoft. I'm not sure if you need a specific justification, but worth asking your Microsoft rep on this.
I do feel that storing a lot of company/department videos in OneDrive isn't ideal, but the only other option is to purchase more SharePoint storage. I'm not sure entirely how much additional storage costs as Microsoft don't seem to publish this information, and instead get you to discuss with a Microsoft rep. I guess you would need to weigh up the pros/cons of using OneDrive vs. purchasing additional SharePoint storage.
If you were looking to decrease your overall SharePoint storage, you could look at how many versions of documents you are storing as this can increase the size significantly, especially if you have 100+ versions of a document. I'd also look at options around archiving some of your SharePoint storage to lower tier Azure storage if it makes sense (might be lower cost to do this than purchase more SharePoint storage).
So, in addition to the SharePoint storage, each user gets 1TB for their OneDrive account which can "theoretically" be increased to 5TB (per user) by asking Microsoft. I'm not sure if you need a specific justification, but worth asking your Microsoft rep on this.
I do feel that storing a lot of company/department videos in OneDrive isn't ideal, but the only other option is to purchase more SharePoint storage. I'm not sure entirely how much additional storage costs as Microsoft don't seem to publish this information, and instead get you to discuss with a Microsoft rep. I guess you would need to weigh up the pros/cons of using OneDrive vs. purchasing additional SharePoint storage.
If you were looking to decrease your overall SharePoint storage, you could look at how many versions of documents you are storing as this can increase the size significantly, especially if you have 100+ versions of a document. I'd also look at options around archiving some of your SharePoint storage to lower tier Azure storage if it makes sense (might be lower cost to do this than purchase more SharePoint storage).