Why are SharePoint sites going read-only over storage limits?
Cloud storage sites exceeding official capacity limits are receiving warnings that accounts will be restricted to read-only unless administrators pay expensive per-terabyte fees or manually prune data. Managing this requires monitoring actual consumption, tracking historical growth trends, and adjusting versioning limits to reduce oversized files.
What people tried
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Why are SharePoint sites going read-only over storage limits?
- 1Switching sites over to automatic versioning limitsDid this help you?
- 2Evaluating third-party archiving tools like Layer2 ShArc to move files between Azure Blob and SharePointDid this help you?
- 3Paying additional monthly fees per TB for extra storageDid this help you?
- 4Enforcing mailbox storage limits and forcing users to file data into central project data instead of PST filesDid this help you?
- 5Transitioning to Exchange Online archiveDid this help you?
- 6Buying more storage hardware or increasing off-site backup capacity budgetsDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Looks like overquota'd sharepoint sites are now getting warnings that their service will be made read only during October”source ↗
“I have one that is 6TB over it's official limit, switched a lot of the sites over to automatic versioning limits which has put it to 4.8TB over now as it was mostly adobe files.”source ↗
“Discussing with management about choices and obviously we can pay ~£180 perTB per month - but i saw this service layer2-sharc.com has anyone used it before?”source ↗
“I'm trying to deal with the ever expanding backup.”source ↗
“We use LTO7 tapes (6TB), and have now reached the limit of these tapes.”source ↗
“The reason for this email is because we are nearing our maximum capability of storage with our hardware”source ↗
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