Assigning Quotas for Users

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Lois Morrett

We are in the process of migrating all of our users home directories to a new
server using RoboCopy. We are planning on setting the same quotas for the
users that they currently have. My question is this. The NTFS security is set
up on the users folders as the user has Modify and Administrators group has
Full Control.
If Administrators has ownership of the folders/files and the quota is set to
the owner of the file and administrators quota on the disk is set to
unlimited what is the point of the quotas ? Doesn't it only affect the new
files the user creates on the disk? The user can increase a file (say a pst)
that's owned by Administrator. Should Administrators not own the home
directories ? Please advise.
 
Lois Morrett wrote:
> We are in the process of migrating all of our users home directories to a new
> server using RoboCopy. We are planning on setting the same quotas for the
> users that they currently have. My question is this. The NTFS security is set
> up on the users folders as the user has Modify and Administrators group has
> Full Control.
> If Administrators has ownership of the folders/files and the quota is set to
> the owner of the file and administrators quota on the disk is set to
> unlimited what is the point of the quotas ? Doesn't it only affect the new
> files the user creates on the disk? The user can increase a file (say a pst)
> that's owned by Administrator. Should Administrators not own the home
> directories ? Please advise.

Hi

Home directories should be owned by the users to which they are
assigned, as well as all the files and folders within.

Regards

Chris
 
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