Announcing Microsoft 365 Education storage changes

Microsoft is introducing changes to our storage offerings across our Microsoft 365 for Education suite. Beginning at your next contract renewal, but no sooner than August 1, 2024*, all school tenants will receive 100TB of free pooled storage across OneDrive, SharePoint, and Exchange, plus additional storage per paid user. In addition, effective February 1, 2024, users of Office 365 A1 (no-cost subscription) will be limited to a maximum of 100GB of OneDrive storage per user within the school tenant’s 100TB of pooled storage.

Today, most schools (99.96%) are well below their storage allotment. While most customers will not need to reduce their current storage, all customers will need to start considering and implementing new policies for information management and governance. To help, Microsoft is delivering free tools and guidance to manage the process end-to-end. Schools will also have the option to purchase additional incremental storage based on their needs.

Some of the benefits we expect to see include helping schools reduce some of the security risks associated with legacy storage and data sprawl, a top concern for IT leaders, while also benefiting our shared environmental footprint.

Read the blog Program Updates in Microsoft 365 for Education

View and manage your storage in the Microsoft 365 admin center.

Get details and Guidance Changes to storage offerings across Microsoft 365 Education

*For details on how this will be implemented and next steps, please view our FAQ Microsoft 365 for Education updates