

Buy additional storage space, which will cost $0.20 per GB per month, or clean up your SharePoint sites.īuying additional storage space might be the easiest option, but I recommend your first check your storage usage report (admin center > Reports > Usage) to make sure this isn’t a temporary spike. So if you get a warning that your SharePoint storage is almost full, then you have two options.

SharePoint will keep all the different versions of a file, which is great for your users but it can hurt your storage, especially with non-office files, like Cad files. This is the part that is unclear to most people, what counts towards the storage limit of SharePoint? Not only are the files self are counted towards the storage limits, but also the files in the first and second-stage recycle bins, the different versions of the files, and even the files that are kept based on a retention policy. How is the used SharePoint Storage calculated? If one of your users reaches the 5TB limit, then Microsoft will increase the storage to 25TB 1 after you opened a support case. Each user gets 1TB of storage by default and that can be increased to 5TB if you have more than 5 users (licenses). Important to know is that the OneDrive storage of your users isn’t included in this storage limit.

In this article, I will explain how the SharePoint storage quota works and what counts towards the quota. So extending the storage in time is really important. One thing you really should keep in mind is that your SharePoint sites will go into a read-only mode when your SharePoint storage is full. Ever wondered why your SharePoint Storage doesn’t lower after deleting some files? Or why your SharePoint Storage is already full even though the site metrics tell something else? SharePoint online is great, but it can be a bit confusing sometimes how the SharePoint storage limits work.
