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How do I view the size of each video file and how much of the 500 GB I have remaining?
Hi, I will be using Streams to access videos recorded during live Teams meetings video calls. I can't seem to find the size of the files. The account only has 500 GB, as is standard for paying ...
alexpooley You have 500GB per tenant and 0,5GB per user, all added together and than the space is shared with all users. So a user has not "only" 500MB for himself, a user can use from the summed storage. See the limits here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/quotas-and-limitations#user-limits
And everyone starting a recording of a Teams meeting has to take care about the video. Because Stream has no retention policy, you as company or school have to give them rules. For example: delete a meeting recording after one week or one month. If informations should be extracted, trim the video and give more people permissions or write down your protocol and store it in SharePoint as reference. Recording every meeting and you do not touch the recordings afterwards is not good. Stream is good for videos that are used from the people, not OneDrive for videos with unlimited storage. And if the space in Stream is not enough, you can buy 500GB chunks to extend the space (not cheap!).
Yes, I know it is pooled, but just as an example if all users recorded one hour it would be full, in the same way it would be if half of your users recorded two hours. User guidance is fine, but unlikely to be followed and due to the lack of analytics you can't easily pull up users who are consuming the most storage. I'm sure analytics improvements and an API will land, at least allowing some automation of removal of old content, but for now it is going to be very hands on.
