To align with the important updates of Microsoft’s storage policy for Office 365 that applies globally to all educational institutes.
To align with the important updates of Microsoft’s storage policy for Office 365 that applies globally to all educational institutes.
The disk quota for OneDrive of existing HKU users are adjusted effective from 1st April 2024:
Staff (Case T)
Paid License A3
Staff personal account, or Departmental account or Honorary appointee with paid license (Case T.A3) for HKU and CONNECT tenant staff account
New account
New site
License Change
Teams Site / SharePoint Online Site (Case T.A3.SP)
100GB disk quota
OneDrive (Case T.A3.OD)
100GB disk quota
Exchange Online (Case T.A3.Ex)
50GB disk quota
Existing account
Existing site
without license change
Teams Site / SharePoint Online Site (Case T.A3.SP)
Being reviewed and will be changed later
OneDrive (Case T.A3.OD)
500GB disk quota for those accounts with measured OneDrive usage less than 400GB at mid-Feb 2024.
Exchange Online (Case T.A3.Ex)
Being reviewed and will be changed later
Free License A1
Staff personal account, or Departmental account or Honorary appointee with free license (Case T.A1) for HKU and CONNECT tenant staff account
New account
New site
License Change
Teams Site / SharePoint Online Site (Case T.A1.SP)
100GB disk quota
OneDrive (Case T.A1.OD)
25GB disk quota
Exchange Online (Case T.A1.Ex)
25GB disk quota
Existing account
Existing site
without license change
Teams Site / SharePoint Online Site (Case T.A1.SP)
Being reviewed and will be changed later
OneDrive (Case T.A1.OD)
100GB disk quota enforced by Microsoft starting from 1st Feb 2024. Departments can subscribe to paid license (A3 license) for departmental accounts or honorary appointee accounts up to 30 June of every year to raise OneDrive quota limit and renew annually for those accounts.
Exchange Online (Case T.A1.Ex)
Being reviewed and will be changed later
Shared Mailbox (Case T.SM)
New account
New site
License Change
Exchange Online(Case T.SM.Ex)
50GB disk quota
Existing account
Existing site
without license change
Exchange Online(Case T.SM.Ex)
Being reviewed and will be changed later
Retiree
New account
New site
License Change
Teams Site/ SharePoint Online/OneDrive (Case T.R.SP)
0GB (no license to use)
Exchange Oneline (Case T.R.Ex)
25GB disk quota
Existing account
Existing site
without license change
Teams Site/ SharePoint Online/OneDrive (Case T.R.SP)
0GB (no license to use)
Exchange Oneline (Case T.R.Ex)
Being reviewed and will be changed later
Student (Case S)
Any types of student (Case S)
New account
New site
License Change
Teams Site / SharePoint Online Site (Case S.SP)
100GB disk quota
OneDrive for Business (Case S.OD)
100GB disk quota
Exchange Online (Case S.Ex)
15GB disk quota
Existing account
Existing site
without license change
Teams Site / SharePoint Online Site (Case S.SP)
Being reviewed and will be changed later
OneDrive for Business (Case S.OD)
500GB quota for those accounts with measured OneDrive usage less than 400GB at mid-Feb 2024.
Exchange Online (Case S.Ex)
Being reviewed and will be changed later
All HKU members are encouraged to review their storage usage to delete unnecessary files and e-mail and keep only necessary data to maintain low disk space consumption on OneDrive and E-mail. HKU members are strongly suggested to migrate large files from OneDrive to another location such as a local drive, a USB drive, or any other self-subscribed personal Cloud Drive, etc., as early as possible.
FAQ / Learn more about: