How to Manage Site Storage Limits in SharePoint in Microsoft 365?

The number of licenses the organization has (see SharePoint Limits) determines how much space it has for SharePoint. If you’re a Microsoft 365 Global Administrator and your storage starts to run low, you can add more storage to your subscription.

In this SharePoint article, I will explain how to manage site storage limits in SharePoint in Microsoft 365. Also, we will discuss how to set the existing SharePoint site storage limit from the SharePoint Admin Center.

Manage Site Storage Limits in SharePoint in Microsoft 365

When you create a SharePoint site from the admin center, the storage limit will default to 25600 GB.

However, the SharePoint site owner or Global administrator can change or set the storage limits on the SharePoint Online site from the SharePoint Admin center.

To work around this, follow the steps below. Such as:

1. Open the SharePoint Admin center [https://<Tenant>-admin.sharepoint.com], expand the Sites dropdown, and click on the Active sites to get your subscription’s total or available storage, as shown below.

2. To get the site storage limits, select the Settings options and click the Site storage limits option, as in the screenshot below.

3. You will get two options Under the Site storage limits page. Such as:

• Automatic = Let sites use as much of your organization’s storage as they need
• Manual = Set specific limits for each site

4. Now, select any of these options and click the Save button.

5. Finally, select the Site creation option under the Settings page.

6. On the Site creation page, the Default storage limit for new sites is “25600 GB”, as shown below.

7. However, you can change the storage limit [1 to 25600 GB] and click the Save button.

This is how we can manage storage limits for the SharePoint Online site.

Set Existing SharePoint Site Storage Limit in SharePoint Admin Center

In the same way, if you want to set the existing SharePoint site storage limit, you can follow the below steps. Such as:

1. On the SharePoint Admin center, select the existing SharePoint Online site [Marketing] under the Active sites page. Then, click on the More options […] and choose Storage to edit the storage limit.

2. Change the default storage limit [25600 -> 20000] and click the Save button.

3. After all your updates, look at the screenshot below for the output [Changes saved].

This way, you can set the existing SharePoint site storage limit.

I trust this SharePoint Online tutorial is helpful. If you have any requirements or tasks related to managing SharePoint site storage limits, you can follow this post until the end to get an idea of how to achieve them.

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