Personal site management
Historically, personal sites (or My Sites) have been a management problem. When planning a deployment, you have to consider your user base, the turnover in your organization, the internal policy for content storage, and many other factors. In Office 365, some of these factors have been addressed, but largely the My Sites deployment (as well as any other large-scale site deployment) remains a usage problem.
With the introduction of quotas, you can cap both storage and resources allocated for a site. By default, My Sites get 1 TB of space; unfortunately, the quotas cannot be set in the Request-SPOPersonalSite
command, which is used for the provisioning of personal sites.
Another issue with personal sites is that it takes a few minutes to set them up. It is very common that an administrator will pre-provision personal sites for the organization. At the time of writing, OneDrive is implemented as personal sites, which means that the scripts we will review also apply to...