Question about best practice with multiple office 365 licenses

Hi Marijn,

In the Business premium plan, all users have OneDrive for Business Plan 1 which is 1Tb per storage per person. If they have a plan which has OneDrive for Business Plan 2 such as E3 this is unlimited but starts out at 5Tb per user

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/onedrive-for-business-service-description

https://products.office.com/en-us/onedrive-for-business/compare-onedrive-for-business-plans

All 365 plans contain a 25Tb SharePoint site

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office365/servicedescriptions/sharepoint-online-service-description/sharepoint-online-limits

This is a lot of space for an SMB! This isn't pooled storage - you can't switch the storage space between users - but what you can do, lets say if you have a Business Premium Plan with 1Tb of OneDrive space, is either convert to an E3 which has OneDrive Plan 2 and unlimited space (starting at 5Tb) or simply add the standalone OneDrive Plan 2 on top. With SharePoint you can add to the 25Tb space with extra storage on a per Gb basis.

Hope that clarifies. Microsoft's thinking, originally, is providing space comparable to other vendors in the market such as Box but also to how organisations data is growing over time. It was the same with mailboxes which are now 50Gb by default.

With the desktop apps, the office in 365 is evergreen, always the latest version. If it is boxed copies like Office 2019 that is only a snapshot copy. Office 365 is already several increments beyond that at the current time.

Best, Chris