{"id":2377,"date":"2017-02-28T00:59:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T23:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/?p=2377"},"modified":"2017-02-28T01:03:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T00:03:24","slug":"microsoft-limits-onedrive-for-business-to-1-tb-after-03012017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2017\/02\/28\/microsoft-limits-onedrive-for-business-to-1-tb-after-03012017\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft limits OneDrive for Business to 1 TB after 03\/01\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"http:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/OneDrive.jpg\" width=\"58\" align=\"left\" height=\"56\">Office 365 subscribers who are still using more than 1 TB storage on OneDrive for Business are facing a problem. Microsoft limits at March 1, 2017 the storage capacity to 1 TB. Here's what's happens within the coming months to affected OneDrive for Business accounts.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Some background<\/h3>\n<p>Microsoft promised in October 2014 unlimited cloud storage (OneDrive for Business) for Microsoft Office 365 subscribers. Some users received this unlimited capacity, others are receiving 10 TB (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/onedrive-storage-gets-cut-for-office-365-users-in-a-month-our-tips-to-get-through-it\" target=\"_blank\">see<\/a>). But a year later, in autumn 2015, Microsoft withdraw from unlimited free storage plan for OneDrive for Business users. <\/p>\n<p>Reducing OneDrive for Business storage limit to 1 TByte starts after March 1, 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thurrott\/status\/804416897836060672\" target=\"_blank\">This tweet<\/a> from December 2016 addresses this. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"de\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From a reader&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kgCm7kh50h\">pic.twitter.com\/kgCm7kh50h<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul Thurrott (@thurrott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thurrott\/status\/804416897836060672\">1. Dezember 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>If you are using more than 1 TB on OneDrive for Business, you are probably asking \"what's the consequence\"? <\/p>\n<h3>Microsoft starts limiting OneDrive to 1 TB after March 1, 2017<\/h3>\n<p>At neowin.net <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/onedrive-storage-gets-cut-for-office-365-users-in-a-month-our-tips-to-get-through-it\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> provides proposals, how to keep more than 1 TByte online storage. And Microsoft detailed in a statement for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neowin.net\/news\/heres-what-happens-to-your-onedrive-when-microsoft-ends-unlimited-storage-in-a-month\" target=\"_blank\">neowin<\/a>, what will happens after March 1, 2017 with accounts exceeding the 1 TB limit. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Users exceeding the 1 TB limit are receiving e-mail notification since December 2016 advising to remove data from their OneDrive for Business account.&nbsp;\n<li>Beginning from March 1, 2017 till June 1, 2017 users are able to shrink their OneDrive for Business storage below 1 TB downloading and deleting files. During this \"over quota mode\" it's not possible to update additional files over the 1 TB limit.\n<li>After June 1, 2017 OneDrive accounts exceeding 1 TB storage limit are locked for at least 6 months. Users are no more able to access their data.\n<li>Users can unlock this account only once during this \"locked period\" for 30 days, using the opportunity to shrink the capacity below 1 TB. If the capacity still exceeds 1 TB after 30 days, the account will be locked again forever.\n<li>If a user fails to shrink it's used OneDrive for Business capacity below 1 TB, will loose it's data after the 6 month period. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Neowin.net writes, that users exceeding the 1 TB limit will receive e-mail notifications after March 1, 2017, informing what to do and how long the grace period will be. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Office 365 subscribers who are still using more than 1 TB storage on OneDrive for Business are facing a problem. Microsoft limits at March 1, 2017 the storage capacity to 1 TB. 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