Will I lose my onedrive data if I upgrade from 365 Family to 365 Business Standard?

Harbridge - Edward Chen Partners 20 Reputation points
2024-01-16T14:55:33.43+00:00

I currently have 3 members of family using MS 365 Family and we have saved data one onedrive cloiud. I would like to upgrade to MS365 Business standard so we can yse better versions of team and team call etc. If we upgrade using our email domain from 365 family to 365 business standard , will we lose all our current data on onedrive - which is currently on 365 family subscription?

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  1. Michael Taylor 60,341 Reputation points
    2024-01-16T15:40:06.3466667+00:00

    OneDrive is tied to your MS account, not your subscription. Everyone with a MS account has a OneDrive account irrelevant of whether they have a subscription or not. Provided you don't delete your MS account then you should be fine. Of course if you exceed the max for the free OneDrive version and you stopped your subscription then that extra data would be removed (not sure the process there). But that doesn't seem to be the case here. Irrelevant, for good DR planning you should probably consider having a backup of your OneDrive data anyway. After all someone can accidentally delete data from OneDrive or, as happened recently, there can be a sync issue and OneDrive may wipe your data for you. So maybe you should consider backing up your data before you do the update. Provided you're using the same MS accounts for the new subscription the data (and emails and notebooks, etc) should all remain in place.


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  1. Harbridge - Edward Chen Partners 20 Reputation points
    2024-01-19T03:58:30.4066667+00:00

    The reason why i post the follow-up question is because it was related to my first onedrive problem and Michael very kindly answered it. This is actually useful not just to me but to anyone reading this thread.

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