Microsoft has issued a warning for OneDrive account administrators. Because on January 27, unlicensed OneDrive user accounts that have not been used for 93 days will stop working for administrators and end users.
Microsoft said that unlicensed accounts are those that have had their license removed by an administrator or those that have had the user deleted from Entra ID.
The Redmond-based company said that accounts without a license will be automatically archived. To access the files, administrators will need to enable unlicensed account billing from the Microsoft 365 admin center. It also said that accounts that are archived will be charged $0,05 per GB per month, and if you want to reactivate an account, there will be another charge of $0,60 per GB.
As of today, the following costs also exist, which did not exist before:
Storage charges: Archived accounts without permission will now be charged a storage fee of $0,05 per GB per month.
Reactivation cost: Reactivating an archived account costs $0,60 per GB, providing 30 days of access.
Operating Expenses: Managing accounts without permission entails additional administrative tasks and costs.
Compliance and Security: Properly filing and charging unauthorized accounts helps mitigate the security risk.
Administrators can find out how many unauthorized accounts there are by going to SharePoint admin center>Reports>OneDrive accounts. They will also find information there about why accounts have been archived.
The company also said that EDU users are not affected by these changes if they have more than 50% educational licenses. The company said that it considers anything less than 50% to be commercial and not educational, and there will be pricing changes.
George is still wondering what he is doing here….
