MS 365 E5 Advanced Usage: Renew Subscription, One Drive Upgrade to 5T & Create Catch All Exchange Mail Rule

For subscription status, check this page: https://admin.microsoft.com/Adminportal/Home?source=applauncher#/subscriptions

Based on Microsoft 365 Developer Program faq:

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And Microsoft use “a set of algorithms and telemetry that we get from your activity in the Microsoft 365 Developer Program and on your Office 365 E3 or Microsoft 365 E5 developer subscription to determine whether you are actively developing“.

Basically, Microsoft does not give clear ideas what kind of activities can be defined as actively developing. But lots of people believes as long as you are using API actively, your subscription should be safe. 

One example to use API is to set up your OneDrive Index site. Here is my previous post about a serverless OneDrive Index Setup

Here are some posts:

• https://ift.tt/2ItBvYT
• https://ift.tt/2IuEjov
• https://ift.tt/3gwLHil

Docker to run OneIndex： https://ift.tt/3uOiiat

Other suggestions from Reddit:

• Deploy LookBook templates on SharePoint

• Setup Power Automate flow based on ready template

• Setup Power Apps based on ready template

• Deploy Power BI template from galler

Increase OneDrive Space from 1T to 5T or More

Log into Microsoft 365 admin center using an admin account. 

Admin centers ->All admin centers -> OneDrive

Or directly from this link: https://admin.onedrive.com/?v=StorageSettings

Change default (mininum) storage in GB from 1024 to 5120 for 5T space.

If 5T is still not enough, there are some other ways to upgrade to 25T for your account based on some Internet posts. You can find one post how to do this 25T upgrade from references section. 

Use Web GUI， only those user accounts created after this change made will get 5T. Existing account before 5T change made, are still got only 1T. 

Here are steps to use Shell tool to modify existing accounts’ OneDrive space:

1. InstallSharePoint Online Management Shell ToolDownload Address: https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=35588

2. Enter following code from Shell window

Connect-SPOService -Url https://<organization name>.sharepoint.com

You can find out your organization name after you logged into your SharePoint site. For example, my url is https://ift.tt/3mEAaBz

so my organization name is 51sec, then the code would be 

Connect-SPOService -Url https://51sec.sharepoint.com

3. After enter the code, you will be prompted Microsoft 365 login window. Using your admin email address and password to log in. 

4. Change certain user’s (for example: test) OneDrive space size using following code:

Set-SPOSite -Identity https://51sec.sharepoint.com/personal/test mk -StorageQuota 5242880

Now you have successfully increased your existing user test’s OneDrive space size from 1T to 5T.

Catch All Emails

1. Change your domain to default domain and make sure accepted domain is Internal relay type. 

2. Create a rule

Start from admin -> All Admin Centers -> Exchange

or from this url: https://ift.tt/2QhyGRO

Create a new rule:

Basically, all external user sent emails will be redirected to netsec and test those two users’ email boxes. 

References

• 微软OneDrive网盘免费升级到25T容量教程
• O365 OneDrive Usage Tips and Tricks
• Onedrive容量 1T 修改 为5T，老帐号不删除重建