SharePoint OneDrive for Business quota can be increased to 1TB

Mar 21, 2014 21:36 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft recently announced that users are allowed to increase their SharePoint OneDrive for Business quota to 1TB from the original 25 GB default configuration.

Before the update, administrators could set a maximum limit of 100 GB, but they’re now provided with more control over each user account to assign the maximum quota.

“Administrators can select specific users to assign new upper quotas of 50GB, 100GB, 250GB, 500GB or 1TB. The SharePoint site collection limit has also been increased from 100GB to a maximum of 1TB, and the 25TB SharePoint Online limit in a single tenant has been removed, which means you can purchase as much pooled storage as needed,” Microsoft explained.

OneDrive is Microsoft’s old SkyDrive storage service that has recently been renamed to settle a trademark dispute in the United Kingdom.

OneDrive is obviously playing a key role in Microsoft’s long-term strategy and is now part of several important products, including Windows 8 and Office.

Of course, consumers are also provided with several plans if they wish to purchase additional storage space, including a $100 (€73) package that brings you an extension of 200 GB. Each OneDrive account comes by default with 7 GB of free space, which should be quite enough to save all of the documents you create every day.