The rest of this article examines the first of these capabilities—volume and folder quotas in R2. In future articles on WindowsNetworking. The difference between volume and folder quotas in R2 and NTFS disk quotas which are still around in R2 are as follows:. Quotas can now be set at the folder level and not just the volume level. These quotas apply to all users who store their files in a quota-enabled volume or folder.
Quotas are calculated using actual physical disk space occupied by files. You can have quotas automatically created for all subfolders in a given folder, including subfolders not yet created. When a quota is exceeded, you have a variety of notifications you can trigger including logging to the Event log, sending an email, execute a command or script, and generate a storage report. Before you can create a volume or folder quota however, you first need to install FSRM—on both the machine you are going to manage quotas from plus every file server on which you are going to create quotas.
That means all your file servers have to be upgraded to R2 before you can use this new feature. Adding this role adds a number of new storage features as shown in Figure 1. Then select the Quota Management node to perform all tasks related to volume and folder quotas on that server as in Figure This share is used by users in the Sales Department for sharing documents with each other. There are two ways to put a quota on the Sales folder: apply a pre-defined quota or create a custom one.
Right-click on the Quota node and select Create Quota. Browse to select the Sales folder and select Monitor MB Share under the drop-down list of quota templates available. A quota template is a collection of quota settings that you can apply in one shot to a folder or volume to configure a quota on that folder or volume.
Figure 3 shows the settings that will be applied to the Sales folder. Note that from the summary of quota properties that the quota will be soft generates notifications when exceeded instead of hard generates notifications and enforces limit and that three notifications will be sent out:. Click Create and the quota is applied. NTFS quotas can also be managed from the command prompt. To do it, the command fsutil quota is used.
Quota sizes are specified in bytes 2 GB in this example. The first value is the maximum size of user data on the disk hard quota , the second is the limit at which warnings appear warning level.
For example, the following PowerShell script will display information about the current user quotas. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting. Leave this field empty. Home About. Stay on top of the latest Windows Server tips and tricks with our free Windows Server newsletter, delivered each Wednesday. Automatically sign up today! Derek Schauland has been tinkering with Windows systems since Configuring quotas and quota templates on shared folders When upgrading to Windows Server R2, you will need to install the File Server Resource Manager application following the steps below.
Select Windows Components. When the tools installation completes, the newly added MMC console will appear under the Administrative Tools folder on the Windows Start menu. In the left pane, expand Quota Management.
Select Quotas. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Remote Desktop Services Terminal Services. Sign in to vote. Hi, I have installed the terminal services on Windows Server Enterprise. I would like to apply quotas on the profile to not to use more than 50 MB. The profiles are not roaming profiles.
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