Storage Options

[Musa, Timothy]

After merging the storage locations of Gmail and Drive to share the 30GB, there appears to be no way to get increased space.  Is this true, or am I missing the location as to how to get additional space?  We have a few people doing videos where 30GB is not enough space and would like to increase what they have available.

Timothy Musa

Community Consolidated School District 93

Carol Stream, IL
(630) 893-9393

[Doug Sawyer]

At the bottom of your e-mail screen it shows how much space you have used and there should be a a link that says "Manage". When you click that it takes you to a page where you can purchase more storage. 

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Belle Valley School District # 119
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[Jaymon Lefebvre]

from the GMail main page, I selected the manage link waaaay at the bottom of the inbox indicating my usage.

It links you to here:

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[Doug Blatti]

Last time I checked, the ability to purchase and assign licenses was only available to business customers.  So individual purchasing would be your only viable solution to that (assuming it is enabled in your control panel) as shown by Jaymon.

 

See: https://support.google.com/a/answer/177064?hl=en

 

Here a thread full of complaints with at least one creative “workaround”.

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/apps/Ov_9SNO9-As

 

Doug Blatti

Technology Program Manager

Community High School District 155

@dblatti, http://blatti.net

[Jaymon Lefebvre]

From here:  https://support.google.com/a/answer/1047457?hl=en

• The administrator for your organization has the option to prevent you from purchasing or renewing extra storage, or to prevent you from using Google Drive, Gmail, or Picasa. These actions could prevent you from taking full advantage of the extra storage. Google storage purchases are non-refundable even under these circumstances. You can purchase additional storage only when your administrator enables the User Managed Storage service for the organization you belong to.

I am just in a car with a Chromebook still trying to figure out the new dashboard.. lol  I cant find this option!!

[Jaymon Lefebvre]

not the most helpful of links Google.. lol.. but it also explains another potential reason why you might not have the option.

Learn more and get started
User Managed Storage can be enabled by your domain administrator from the Google Apps Control Panel athttps://www.google.com/a/[your_domain.com] (replace [your_domain.com] with your actual domain name). Note that the Google Checkout service must also be enabled to allow end users to purchase additional storage. If your organization isn’t using Google Apps yet, you can learn more and sign up today athttp://www.google.com/apps/more.

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Doug Blatti <dbl...@d155.org> wrote:

[Doug Blatti]

It says “Editions supported: Google Drive storage licenses are only available to Google Apps for Business customers.”, here: https://support.google.com/a/answer/1726914?hl=en

[Jaymon Lefebvre]

Seems kind of strange that I (and several other K12 GAFE customers I communicate with) have the option available.  Weird!!

[Doug Blatti]

Do you mean:

 

A)     You can buy “storage licenses” for you organization and apply them to accounts in your (GAFE) domain from the admin console, or

 

B)      You can click “Manage” in the bottom left corner of gmail/drive (takes you here: https://www.google.com/settings/storage?hl=en) where you can buy storage for the account you are currently logged into

 

If you mean B, that is just the individual storage.  You can allow/disallow your GAFE users from having the ability to purchase their own storage through the admin console.  Only Google Apps for Business customers can buy “storage licenses” and apply them.

 

If you can do A (above) from a GAFE account, then something must have changed.

[Shircliff, Paul]

if doing videos...do you have youtube open??? every GAPPS GAFE account also has a youtube channel

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