Increase in SharePoint Online storage allocation
Published Apr 27 2018 09:03 AM 128K Views
Microsoft

Global digital transformation is driving growth across Microsoft 365 and SharePoint as organizations invest in technology to empower employees to do their best work. More than 350,000 organizations now have SharePoint and the data they are storing over doubled last year alone.

 

We’re hearing customers want to put even more content into SharePoint to take advantage of new team collaboration and enterprise content management experiences, while moving off on-premise servers, file shares, and 3rd party cloud offerings.


Today we are announcing a 20x increase in the SharePoint Online per user license storage allocation. This will increase to 1 TB plus 10 GB per user license purchased, up from 1 TB plus .5 GB per user license purchased. Note this does not include SharePoint Online kiosk plans including Office 365 F1 and Microsoft 365 F1.


All Office 365 services that use SharePoint for content services, including Microsoft Teams and Office 365 Groups, will benefit from this substantial storage increase.

 

Example scenarios of increased storage allocation

 

100 user licenses

5000 user licenses

100,000 user licenses

Base tenant allocation

1 TB

1 TB

1 TB

Per user license allocation

1 TB (100 * 10 GB)

50 TB (5000 * 10 GB)

1000 TB (100,000 * 10 GB)

Total tenant allocation

2TB

51 TB

1001 TB

 

This change will start rolling out in late June 2018 and will be completed by the end of August 2018. Once complete, you’ll see this increased storage in your SharePoint Online admin center. If you are currently paying for additional storage you can decrease this as needed after this change is reflected in your tenant.


As always, you can purchase additional storage if needed from within the SharePoint Online admin center on a per-gigabyte (GB), per-month basis.


We are humbled by SharePoint Online’s customer momentum and look forward to helping you achieve more with this additional content storage for your teams and organization.

 

54 Comments

Awesome news!!!

Will the current rule of hybrid search continue to apply of 1TB per 1 million indexed items?

Awesome! Now the customers are more happy and will leverage Teams to the next level !

Will this updated policy hold true for US Government Community Cloud customers as well? Or, is this just for Commercial customers?

Brass Contributor

Never delete anything any more :)

Iron Contributor

Great news...I have a feeling that the consumption in Teams was a direct response to that :) 

Brass Contributor

Great news! Storage capacity should not be a concern now!

Microsoft

@Matt Holzmann (ATS) - Yes, this will apply to US Government Community Cloud customers too

Iron Contributor

This is great news @Aaron Rimmer and VERY timely too. 

Copper Contributor

Very good news and more benefit to customers!

Wow this is great and will save organisations a lot of money. 

Good news !

Steel Contributor

Does this apply to any/all Education plans too?

Copper Contributor

Long awaited, but welcome - brilliant news.

Copper Contributor

Great news Aaron. Does this change also mean we will now have increased capacity in the hybrid search index? Example 50TB = 50,000,000 Million record capacity would be bumped to 1000TB/1,000,000,000 records if we go by 100k users.

Brass Contributor

Awesome news indeed! .. Thanks

Brass Contributor

Long overdue, but thanks !

Didnt look great when Onedrive for Business for 1 user had more capacity than a sharepoint online tenant of 10,000 users.

Cheers !!!

Iron Contributor

This is excellent news for the SP Online customer base. 

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This is incredible news! (It should have been in the admin message center too.)

Copper Contributor

Nice!  Hopefully it increases the index limit as well.

Microsoft

Yes. This upcoming increase to the SharePoint Online storage allocation also applies to the number of on-premises items an organization can index in Office 365 with the cloud hybrid search solution. Read search limits for SharePoint Online for more information.

Brass Contributor

Good news! This will save us a bit in extra storage. 

 

Shame this does not appear to be posted in the admin center messages yet, it's hard keeping tabs on all communication channels...

Microsoft

Will this increase also come to Government Community Cloud (GCC) in that time frame mentioned above?

@David Fish "@Matt Holzmann (ATS) - Yes, this will apply to US Government Community Cloud customers too" from earlier in thread.

Copper Contributor
Great change, thanks very much! Would be nice if the per GB additional pricing had discounts at certain tiers (i.e. less per gig for 100GB/500GB/1TB/10TB etc).
Copper Contributor

Dynamics365 also?

Iron Contributor

Is this also for Education A5 customers? Also, you wrote "As always, you can purchase additional storage if needed from within the SharePoint Online admin center on a per-gigabyte (GB), per-month basis."  I've never been able to do that. From our admin center I can only add storage by buying additional user licenses, making it expensive storage.  Is there another way to buy storage for SharePoint?

Copper Contributor

So, per user storage increases 20x (0,5GB -> 10GB), while per tenant storage remains the same (1TB). At the same time, due to manatory versioning of libraries, the storage requirements might increase up to 100x (100 being the minimal allowed number of document versions in libraries). For those who have a small number of users and a large number of files that are often being modified (say AutoCAD drawings) this will result in less available space, not more.

Copper Contributor

In response to @Marko Čurko - The increase in versions (100) should not equate to a 100x increase in storage since SPOL should use shredded storage for versioning. The net effect of the changes should be to add considerably more storage allocation to each tenant while giving up a small fraction of that increase to the versions saved.

Copper Contributor

How does this affect the 5000 file limit of Sharepoint online?


This has no change on on any other limit, but keep in mind that the limit isn't 5000 files, it is 30 million files per Document Library. The "5,000" is the List View Threshold, in which Microsoft has and continues to make significant headway into lifting or at the very least, greatly mitigating.

Microsoft

Hi, can Education plan users also enjoy this storage increase? Thanks!

Steel Contributor

@Elaine Zhang I'm keen to know too. I asked this several posts above on this thread and still awaiting an answer.

Microsoft

@Philemon Burney@Elaine Zhang yes, this will apply to education plans too.

Copper Contributor

Hello, can academic plan users also make use of this storage increase? Hope to hear from you soon

Brass Contributor

Hi @Aaron Rimmer

 

Great work on the storage increase! Just wondering, does the option to purchase additional storage increase as well?

In the support articles, we can purchase 20TB more, in TechNet, this describes this as unlimited.

 

Which is it? How much storage can we add to a tenant on top of the new increases?

 

Thanks

Paul Bullock

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I like this news. This helps us out a lot. 

 

@Aaron Rimmer- This does not indicate a change in file size options, correct? (if I am correct), 15GB is the file size limit at the moment, but as an org using Hydration Kits, complex imaging and more, we could really use something higher to completely replace on-prem file shares. A SharePoint site would be most appropriate here, and Azure File Shares are not an option due to ISP limitations.

 

This is a great step in the right direction - it's just the other part of the blocker that's stopping us from going all-cloud.

Thanks.

Microsoft

@Deleted there is no change in the file size limit but thank you for the feedback on how this impacts your organization.

Brass Contributor

So just to be clear, this is for Sharepoint and OneDrive for business correct, this does not effect the exchange mailbox sizes or storage of any oh hold mail archives or other data..

thank you

Microsoft

@Mark Gibbs this is for SharePoint Online only.

Copper Contributor

@Aaron Rimmer does this apply to Non-profit accounts as well?

Brass Contributor

This is excellent news!  No more restricting users to only use SharePoint for their current data and not any of their historical data.

Copper Contributor

Great news, thank you!

Microsoft

Is there any instruction on verifying that this feature has been pushed to a tenant? 

Simply maths ;-)....check storage reported in the SPO Admin Center and then make the calculations of the storage you should have

Iron Contributor

Is there any instruction on verifying that this feature has been pushed to a tenant? 

 

You will see and can confirm the increase in the SharePoint Admin Center. In our case, the storage went from 1.8 TB to 18.5 TB.

Copper Contributor

Has it ever been asked why SharePoint storage is 20 cents per GB when adding additional User storage is free and regular storage is 5 or 6 cents in Azure?

I'd be glad to hear that I'm adding storage from the wrong place (O365 admin console) and that it's better to add from elsewhere (Azure portal?).

Copper Contributor

@Doug Petrole I believe that it is based on the underlying storage technology that needs to be used on each type of storage. Since the data resides in a SQL DB and the SharePoint data is more write heavy they probably have to add faster storage compared to fairly static file storage such as ODFB.

Brass Contributor

@Dean Morgan, Yeah, structured data is stored in SQL but (correct me if I'm wrong) the main storage consumer are files which are stored on disk. 

Iron Contributor

When Microsoft implemented the storage increase, the allocation for our organization went up to 18.1 TB. This morning while doing some work in SharePoint admin center I noticed our organization allocation dropped to 12.87 TB. We have the same number of licenses in our organization. We are trying to find out from our TAM and customer rep why this occurred. Has this happened to anyone else?

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