Guest Graham Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 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
Guest z1z1z1 Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 Re: Disk Quota's "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.
Guest Jabez Gan [MVP] Posted July 17, 2007 Posted July 17, 2007 Re: Disk Quota's 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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