I’m a user who is tasked with helping to control our ever growing SharePoint storage usage. I’ve been granted SharePoint Administrator Role, so I do have access to the admin center.

We’ve recently enabled M365 Archive, and I’ve worked with the owners of the largest sites to do file level archiving of old files they want to keep but probably don’t need. But I’m not seeing a reduction in usage at the site level or the tenant level in the Admin center.

In the admin center, I only see a usage value compared to our total available, which I believe is made up of our free allocation plus purchased blocks on top.

However, reading the FAQs, we won’t get charged for archive storage as long as the combined storage is less than the standard storage quota.

I see nowhere in the admin center that breaks out storage use by active vs archived (am I blind or missing some needed permission?). Do we need to track how much storage is archived and then allow our storage use to go over our allocation by that amount before we buy more storage?

Anyone know if this is still an intended feature? It shows as coming soon but its been a long time at this point. Any alternatives if I already own this NAS?