Hey,

At my workplace we are looking to change our method of storing files, as it stands we have an old machine which we connect to via the LAN.

As we have expanded, other people need access to this from afar and we have looked at Office 365 Education, my understanding is that everyone gets 25gb on their own local area. How would we go about getting 100-200 GB of space on a standalone area.

E.G a virtual server which everyone can access, as an admin can I restrict who views which directories? 

My understanding is that I would need to make a user account called "Company Server" and share the folders via SkyDrive and only upgrade that account?

Thanks again

Hi,

As far as I know at this point, there is no option for Plan customer to increase the mailbox size to over 25 GB. For more send/receive mailbox storage, you may use more than one Exchange Online licensed mailboxes instead.

The SkyDrive Pro library in all SharePoint Online plans in Office 365 comes with 7 GB of storage. There is not presently an option for purchasing additional storage for the SkyDrive Pro library.

Best regards,

Karen Hu

• Marked as answer by Tony Chen CHNMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Monday, August 12, 2013 12:44 PM

The storage for OneDrive for Business (SkyDrive Pro) is now 1TB for each user. OneDrive for Business is a good place for storing users' working files, the kinds of files you'd typically find in user home directories.

You can use Office 365 like a file server through the use of mapped network drives. Here's how to set one up support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2616712. You can also script the network drive setup process with Powershell. Check http://www.lieben.nu/numb3rs/?page_id=129 and http://office365drivemap.codeplex.com/

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