This Exchange Online blog post will show how to Change the Send and Receive Limit Office 365 Exchange Online.
By default, Office 365 Exchange online has a send and receive limit of 35 MB, however, this limit can be changed to 150 MB.
In this article, I will show you how to change the storage limit to a specific user using PowerShell and the portal and the default organization limit to all users using the Portal and PowerShell.
View Send \ Receive Limit
To view the current send \ receive limit, I’ll run the cmdlet below, and as you can see, the limit is set to 35MB
Get-Mailbox userid@domain.somthing |fl maxsendsize, maxrec*
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Change Limit
To change the Send Receive limit, I will send you the command below
Note: To connect to Exchange Online, visit this article.
set-Mailbox userid@domain.something -MaxReceiveSize 150mb -MaxSendSize 150mb -Verbose
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To verify that the cmdlet worked I will run the get cmdlet below.
Get-Mailbox userid@domain.something |fl maxsendsize, maxrec*
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Change user limit Using the Portal
I can also change the limit for each user from the portal by selecting the user mailbox -> mailbox features -> Message Size restrictions
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Change limit for all users using the Portal
To change the limit to all users in the organization, we can use the Exchange Admin Center portal by clicking on Recipient -> Mailboxes
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Next, I will click on the … and click on Set default message size restrictions
Below, I can change the default message size restrictions
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To View all Exchange Online plans and Size restrictions, I will use the cmdlet below
Get-MailboxPlan | fl name,maxsendsize,maxreceivesize,isdefault
To change the limit to all Exchange Online plans, I will run the cmdlet below
Get-MailboxPlan | Set-MailboxPlan -MaxSendSize 145MB -MaxReceiveSize 145MB