How to add storage to SharePoint with a 3rd party reseller of Microsoft services like pax8

netti86 · February 22

Customer is 350gb over budget on SharePoint. I can't easily extended storage or don't know how. I bought 1gb of m365 storage but no idea how to add it . We use a Microsoft reseller called pax8. Clicking get more storage just links to a confusing article. Any advice tips or help welcome.

DrMacintosh · February 22

Purchasing extra SharePoint storage through Microsoft is crazy expensive, its $0.20/GB/m. So for 350GB, that's an additional $70 per month on the M365 invoice. But if they absolutely need it, at least temporarily, follow these steps:

Go to the M365 Admin Center -> Go to Billing -> Purchase Services -> Click Add-Ons in the "View by Category" section -> scroll to the bottom and click the Details button for "Office 365 Extra File Storage" -> Connect with your subscription -> Purchase as many licenses as you need GBs, in this case, at least 350 licenses.

There may be options to increase your available storage via third party vendors, but I know we didn't pursue that option in my office. Instead I deployed a Synology NAS and Synology Drive to host our archive of cold data, thus freeing up about half of our 1TB SharePoint storage. Synology NAS devices running DSM 7.0+ also have access to a program called Active Backup for M365 which can backup your whole M365 tenant, including SharePoint, OneDrive, and emails.

netti86 · February 22

So as far as I understand we have 35-40 users , I have purchased the m365 extra storage on our reseller website and it shows up in my products on admin panel. When I'm on the reseller site It says about a parent I think but doesn't work when I select anything , also like it's not related to a used account and we don't have the SharePoint subscription it's just as part of the domain I guess. It's the connect with my subscription part as such I don't understand. As the billing and purchase service is done with the reseller. I think the plan is to pay the 70 for now and then work out removing or archiving .