In the disk management interface, right click on the volume in the graphical view to which disk quotas are to be applied. From the resulting menu, select Properties. In the Properties dialog click on the Quota tab to display the quota settings for the current volume:. As illustrated in the above figure, disk quotas are disabled by default.
The first step, therefore, is to set the Enable quota management check box. Once selected, the other settings will activate so that they can be changed. The first setting controls whether users will be denied disk space when the specified limit is reached. If not selected, the user will simply receive a warning. Set the desired limit for this setting and then decide on a limit level at which the user will receive a warning. This value enables you to have a warning issued to the user as they approach the limit giving them time to free up space before they are denied space.
The final settings allow the administrator to control whether events are recorded in the logs when users receive warnings or exceed specified limits. On completion of the quota settings, click on Apply to apply the settings. Windows will subsequently display a dialog warning that the disk quota system needs to be enabled before the settings can take effect. To set e-mail notifications and reporting capabilities, you must first configure the general File Server Resource Manager options.
If you're just looking to free up space on a volume, consider using Azure File Sync with cloud tiering enabled. This allows you to cache your most frequently accessed files locally and tier your least frequently accessed files to the cloud, saving local storage space while maintaining performance. For details, see Planning for an Azure File Sync deployment. Disk quotas have been available in Windows since Windows was released, and could be used by administrators to limit the amount of space users could use on an NTFS volume.
Disk quotas are based on file ownership rather than folder structure and because of this they are not particularly useful in all situations. For example, if your server had a single storage volume and you need to apply quotas to different folders on the volume then disk quotas will not help. File system quotas, which were first introduced in Windows Server R2, and are a part of the File Server role in Windows Server and Windows Server R2 , offer many benefits over disk quotas.
With file system quotas we can set quotas for specific folders on the volume, we can use templates to ensure consistent application of quotas, and we can set quotas which are automatically applied to all sub-folders of a folder. This functionality can be extremely useful for quickly determining which users or folders are consuming large amounts of disk space on a file server.
Quota thresholds can be configured so that users or administrators receive notifications when quotas have been reached or are about to be reached. Multiple thresholds can be configured for individual quotas, and actions can include sending e-mail messages, logging to the Windows event log, running commands or scripts, or generating storage reports.
There are two kinds of quota available — hard quotas which set a limit and enforce it, and soft quotas which set a limit but only report on it. Soft quotas are useful for monitoring disk space use. Quotas are commonly applied using quota templates, which are a mechanism for easily applying the same quota settings to one or more folders. Quota Templates are the recommended way to configure quotas and FSRM includes some example templates which cover a range of scenarios, including using both hard and soft quota types.
Like all aspects of quota management, the FSRM settings can be applied using three different tools and you can choose the method appropriate to your needs. The solution requires the implementation of new quota template and an auto apply quota. The first step is to create a new template, which we will use later to apply the quota to the file system.
Using a template means we can easily make changes to all folders where we have applied the template quota settings. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro?
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