Upgrade OneDrive to 5TB

Modified on Tue, 10 Dec, 2019 at 7:27 PM

Overview: in the rare circumstance that a user needs more than 1 TB of storage on their business OneDrive it is possible (last verified Jan-2020) to upgrade to 5 TB. These are the steps required:

Your will need:

Admin credentials for the tenant
The user's OneDrive URL (Looks like this: https://microsoft-my.sharepoint.com/personal/user1_contoso_com)
SharePoint Online Management Shell [SPOMS] (Download here: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=255251)
You can check if you already have SPOMS by running this command:
- ```
Get-Module -Name Microsoft.Online.SharePoint.PowerShell -ListAvailable | Select Name,Version
```

Step 1: Launch SharePoint Online Management Shell

Step 2: Type in each line of code, substituting the relevant admin, tenant and user details: [press enter after each line]

$adminUPN="admin.user@tenant-name.onmicrosoft.com"

$userUPN="user.email@company-email.co.uk"

$tenantSubDomain="tenant-name"

$OneDriveURL = "https://$tenantSubDomain-my.sharepoint.com/personal/" + $($userUPN -replace "[@\.]", "_")

$adminCredential = Get-Credential -UserName $adminUPN -Message "Type the password."

Connect-SPOService -Url https://$tenantSubDomain-admin.sharepoint.com -Credential $adminCredential

At this point you should be connected and ready to query the user's existing quota:

Get-SPOSite -Identity $OneDriveURL

You can set the new quota up to a maximum of 5242880 MB (1024 * 1024 * 5 = 5242880 MB or 5 TB)

Set-SPOSite -Identity $OneDriveURL -StorageQuota 5242880

(Now re-enter the Get-SPOSite command to verify that the new quota has been applied)

That's it! If you need more than 5 TB for a user, feel free to contact us and we'll happily help ;-)