Gaining an overview of what takes up space in a SharePoint site is crucial for monitoring large files or a significant number of versions. Unfortunately, the storage metrics link, <siteurl>/_layouts/15/storman.aspx, won’t work for libraries with more than 5,000 files without nested folders. While this might go against information architecture principles, creating folders is an option to avoid the list view threshold error. Here’s a PowerShell script to help you get storage metrics for your SharePoint site:

Retrieving File Count and Size of a folder within a SharePoint Library using PnP PowerShell This post covers a PowerShell script that uses the PnP PowerShell module to retrieve the file count and total size of a specific folder within a SharePoint library. #Parameters $SiteURL = "https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/company311" $FolderSiteRelativeURL = "Shared Documents/Test1" #Connect to PnP Online Connect-PnPOnline -Url $SiteURL -Interactive #Get the folder $Folder = Get-PnPFolder -Url $FolderSiteRelativeURL -Includes ListItemAllFields #Get the total Size of the folder - with versions Write-host "Size of the Folder:" $([Math]::Round(($Folder.