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TonyRedmond
Dec 15, 2016MVP
The default mailbox size for Exchange Online E3 and E5 users is increasing from 50GB to 100GB
Microsoft hasn’t said anything about increasing the default quota for Exchange Online mailboxes from the previous 50 GB limit, so it came as a surprise when the Office 365 Roadmap announced that an i...
BillR
Aug 16, 2018Copper Contributor
Supposedly the OST and PST files can grow to be very large. By default, Outlook will only support 20 GB PST and OST files. However, if you modify the registry (we use Group Policy to do this, but you can manually do it as well), then you can increase the supported size. We have supported over 100GB PST files (OST files are the same file type).
Here are the registry keys to add (based on Office version), now have fun with that :)
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\PST
MaxLargeFileSize REG_DWORD Decimal Value: 102400 (100 GB)
WarnLargeFileSize REG_DWORD Decimal Value: 102400 (100 GB)