Configuring disk quotas windows 2000

Now configure any other settings you wish to be applied by selecting them from the right hand pane. You may also want to manually force a group policy update using the gpupdate utility. This will refresh both the computer and user policies. Whatever changes you make in the group policy will be reflected on the Quota properties tab of each volume you wish to configure in your domain. The options will appear grayed out and non-editable. Using the Computer Management console, you can configure disk quotas for a local or remote volume from a central location.

To open Computer Management, you have three choices; either right click My Computer and select Manage, type compmgmt. Select which computer you wish to manage from the root node. Click the Quota tab and enable the options you want to be enforced. The traffic lights icon at the top indicate the status of the disk quota; red means quotas are disabled, orange signifies a changeover is taking place while it rebuilds the disk information , and green means disk quotas are enabled.

A textual representation of the status is shown on the right of the image. Users will be unable to add more data until some space is freed up. As you can see from Figure 3 above, the quota limit for new users is greyed out. This is because we have already set it from the group policy, which overrides any customizable settings on the quota tab of a volume.

Whenever a user exceeds this limit a Warning event log will be written to the Application Event Log and shown in the Event Viewer. Figure 4: A warning event log for disk quotas. In the Quota Entries application however, it is correctly displayed as a Warning. When you press the Apply button on the Disk Quota Properties Dialog you are notified that the volume will be rescanned to update the statistics and that this operation may take several minutes.

Simply press OK to continue and have disk quotas enabled on that volume. From this section you can create, delete and manage quota entries for specific users or groups. If a user requires more space than others then you can set this from here.

Choose a user from Active Directory and press OK. You will be given the option to limit disk space and set a warning level or not limit disk usage at all. With luck, your device status will report that "This device is working properly.

The Sharing tab of the volume Properties dialog box, shown in Figure 6. By default, all volumes are shared. From this dialog box, you can set the user limit, permissions, and caching for the share. Sharing is covered in Chapter 7, "Accessing Files and Folders. The Security tab of the volume Properties dialog box, shown in Figure 6. Notice that the default permissions allow the Everyone group Full Control permissions at the root of the volume.

This could cause major security problems if any user decides to manipulate or delete the data within the volume. Managing file system security is covered in Chapter 7.

Through this tab, you can limit the amount of space users can use within the volume. Quotas are covered in detail later in this chapter in the "Setting Disk Quotas" section. Windows Server Brain Affiliate Marketing current. EasyProfiter Software. Administrators are the only ones to whom a disk quota does not apply; by default there are no limits for an Administrator. There are numerous reasons you may wish to make use of disk quotas. Based on the requirements of your organization you might choose to configure disk quotas if you have a restricted amount of disk space on a specific server, a limited number of servers, or perhaps the need to monitor user disk space usage without actually enforcing a quota.

As time goes by and perhaps people forget to delete the files from the server, the amount of available disk space will continue to decrease. If nothing is done about it then users will be denied the right to add more files on the server until some old files are removed. Additionally, setting a quota warning level will allow for a system event log to be written for your review.

The most practical means of configuring disk quotas on a large scale would be through a domain-level group policy. This will configure the settings automatically on any of the volumes you wish to have disk quotas enabled, saving you the need to have to configure each volume independently.

Open the Group Policy Object Editor gpedit. On the right hand pane you will see a list of policies that can be applied. The default quota limit is the maximum amount of space assigned per default quota, whereas the warning level is the amount of space at which a warning is triggered. Now configure any other settings you wish to be applied by selecting them from the right hand pane.

You may also want to manually force a group policy update using the gpupdate utility. This will refresh both the computer and user policies. Whatever changes you make in the group policy will be reflected on the Quota properties tab of each volume you wish to configure in your domain. The options will appear grayed out and non-editable.

Using the Computer Management console, you can configure disk quotas for a local or remote volume from a central location. To open Computer Management, you have three choices; either right click My Computer and select Manage, type compmgmt.

Select which computer you wish to manage from the root node. Click the Quota tab and enable the options you want to be enforced. The traffic lights icon at the top indicate the status of the disk quota; red means quotas are disabled, orange signifies a changeover is taking place while it rebuilds the disk information , and green means disk quotas are enabled.