Comments on: Microsoft to Charge for Unlicensed OneDrive for Business Accounts

By: Tony Redmond

Tony Redmond — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:34:22 +0000

In reply to Alina. The same rules apply. You pay five cents per month per gigabyte for archived drives unless your tenant SharePoint storage quota is not fully used, in which case the unused quota offsets any charge arising from the archived OneDrive accounts. In your example, the 50 GB of unused tenant quota will fully offset the 20 GB of archived OneDrive content.

By: Alina

Alina — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 22:44:20 +0000

Thanks for the article, Tony. Could you please clarify if the payment rules for archived Unlicensed OneDrive accounts are the same as those for archived SharePoint sites, particularly in terms of storage consumption? According to the documentation for Microsoft 365 Archive, there’s no additional storage cost for archived sites if the tenant hasn’t yet consumed its already licensed Storage quota.
For example, if the active tenant storage quota is 100TB and the active storage usage is 50TB, and the storage used by unlicensed OneDrive accounts is 20TB, will I be charged for this 20TB when they are moved to Microsoft 365 Archive?

By: Tony Redmond

Tony Redmond — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 22:00:50 +0000

In reply to m36five. Well, I won't believe anything 100% until I have tested it myself when the code is available, but that's what the developers say.

By: m36five

m36five — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 21:54:50 +0000

In reply to Tony Redmond. Best news I've heard all week. Thank you!

By: Tony Redmond

Tony Redmond — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 20:44:31 +0000

In reply to m36five. I asked the development group.

By: m36five

m36five — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 20:36:46 +0000

Thanks for the article, Tony. May I ask where you found the information that suggests “archived sites remain indexed and available to Purview compliance solutions like eDiscovery, so administrators can still run content searches to find and export content from the archived sites.” I must be missing it, but I can’t find that in the Message Center post, nor in the accompanying articles.

By: Tony Redmond

Tony Redmond — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:18:18 +0000

In reply to akaka.

There’s retention applied by OneDrive and retention applied by Purview.

It seems clear that any OneDrive site unlicensed for more than 90 days will be archived. How long it remains in that state depends on whether a retention hold applies to the site or files in the site OR the OneDrive retention period. At least, that’s my understanding. We need to test this when the code is available.

By: akaka

akaka — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 11:57:21 +0000

Hi Tony, does this mean that any OneDrive retention period beyond 90 days (currently limited at 3650 days) will only continue to be accessible if the user was added an “Archiving subscription”?
The MSFT documentation indicates that retention will apply regardless of the additional subscription. However, as long as the prerequisites arent met, you’ll not be able (even as admin) to access the data after that 90 days. And the prerequisites are all about billing setup and subscription assignment.
And I assume archiving can only last for as long as the retention period is configured?

Thank you!

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