Disk Quota's

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Graham

Hi All

Here is the problem



I work at a School with 700 students and 80 staff. We have numerous 2003
servers, but the main server "fileserver" holds all of the users main data.



On this server we have 3 folders, 1: Students 2: Staff 3: Office on a 500
gig volume. In students are all the students home dirs, In Staff, the same,
office is for admin docs etc.



Active Directory is set up similar, Students OU's, Staff OU's etc. With sub
directories as needed.



Could you please advise how to set up Disk quotas on students only (say
500meg) that will not effect Staff or Office users on the same volume.



Will setting a Group policy on the Students OU resolve this. ? And how do I
make sure it only counts the fileserver volume and not all the other servers
that they access.



Any help would be appreciated.



Graham
 
"Graham" <Nospam@please.com> wrote in
news:OFTRf2ByHHA.1456@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl:

> Hi All
>
> Here is the problem
>
>
>
> I work at a School with 700 students and 80 staff. We have numerous
> 2003 servers, but the main server "fileserver" holds all of the users
> main data.
>
>
>
> On this server we have 3 folders, 1: Students 2: Staff 3: Office on a
> 500 gig volume. In students are all the students home dirs, In Staff,
> the same, office is for admin docs etc.
>
>
>
> Active Directory is set up similar, Students OU's, Staff OU's etc.
> With sub directories as needed.
>
>
>
> Could you please advise how to set up Disk quotas on students only
> (say 500meg) that will not effect Staff or Office users on the same
> volume.
>
>
>
> Will setting a Group policy on the Students OU resolve this. ? And how
> do I make sure it only counts the fileserver volume and not all the
> other servers that they access.
>
>
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
>
> Graham
>
>
>

You set up disk quotas on a disk volume itself, so they only apply to
that drive letter on that machine. Right-click on the drive letter and
select "Properties", where you will find the quota settings. You can set
a default quota for all users (probably whatever you want it to be for
the students), then you can select one or more users in the quota entries
and change their quotas to a different value (or even make it unlimited).
This could result in a user with more filespace than the default quota
being overlimit when you first enable the quotas, until you change their
quota values.
Note that you won't find a quota entry for a user in the list until they
have at least one file that is using up space.

Quotas apply to the entire disk, not individual folders. A file counts
against the quota of the file's owner, which is usually set to the
creator of a file when it is first created. This means that if you, as
an administrator, create files in someone's folder, the files count
against "administrators" quota (which is normally unlimited), not theirs.

If files are moved to another folder, they still count against the quota
of the original creator/owner. An administrator can take ownership of
files, which adds them to his quota. To "give" ownership, you usually
need to use some third-party program.
 
Alternatively, if you have each folders used by diff student, say:
-Student
--Bill
--Todd

and each students' folder need to have their own quota, then you will need
to use File Server resource Management that comes with Windows Server 2003
R2.

--
Jabez Gan [MVP]
Microsoft MVP: Windows Server
http://www.blizhosting.com
MSBLOG: http://www.msblog.org

"Graham" <Nospam@please.com> wrote in message
news:OFTRf2ByHHA.1456@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Hi All
>
> Here is the problem
>
>
>
> I work at a School with 700 students and 80 staff. We have numerous 2003
> servers, but the main server "fileserver" holds all of the users main
> data.
>
>
>
> On this server we have 3 folders, 1: Students 2: Staff 3: Office on a 500
> gig volume. In students are all the students home dirs, In Staff, the
> same, office is for admin docs etc.
>
>
>
> Active Directory is set up similar, Students OU's, Staff OU's etc. With
> sub directories as needed.
>
>
>
> Could you please advise how to set up Disk quotas on students only (say
> 500meg) that will not effect Staff or Office users on the same volume.
>
>
>
> Will setting a Group policy on the Students OU resolve this. ? And how do
> I make sure it only counts the fileserver volume and not all the other
> servers that they access.
>
>
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
>
>
> Graham
>
>
 
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