Warning disk quota for end users

[Guest Daniele]

Hi there,

 

i'm using windows 2003 ent SP2 (not R2) with disk quota implemented.

The customer wants me to have a warning message to be displayed for the

users when they are near to their threshold.

Is that possible with a windows builtin feature?

As far as i know it's only possible to log an entry in the server's event

viewer.

 

Can u please help me ?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Guest Jabez Gan [MVP]]

Re: Warning disk quota for end users

 

Hey Daniele,

 

Built in - that won't be possible.

 

But if your client is willing to upgrade to Win2008, then you can setup an

event based task and the task will send a message to the client telling them

that their folder is full. You can easily script this.

 

--

Jabez Gan

Microsoft MVP: Windows Server

http://www.msblog.org

 

 

"Daniele" <Daniele@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:60556B2A-8D5B-42BD-A1F3-5E82FC961833@microsoft.com...

> Hi there,

>

> i'm using windows 2003 ent SP2 (not R2) with disk quota implemented.

> The customer wants me to have a warning message to be displayed for the

> users when they are near to their threshold.

> Is that possible with a windows builtin feature?

> As far as i know it's only possible to log an entry in the server's event

> viewer.

>

> Can u please help me ?

>

> Thanks in advance.

[Guest lforbes]

RE: Warning disk quota for end users

 

Hi,

 

It is not possible within the OS even with R2. I don't like the R2 Quota

manager because of the severe limitations. I still use the Disk managment

one.

 

However, when you set the quotas, the disk amount left actually shows up in

My Computer. I always teach my users to look there.

 

Also, I have 2500 users but check my quotas about once a week. If users are

getting too full I either increase their quota or send them a notice.

 

Cheers,

Lara

 

"Daniele" wrote:

> Hi there,

>

> i'm using windows 2003 ent SP2 (not R2) with disk quota implemented.

> The customer wants me to have a warning message to be displayed for the

> users when they are near to their threshold.

> Is that possible with a windows builtin feature?

> As far as i know it's only possible to log an entry in the server's event

> viewer.

>

> Can u please help me ?

>

> Thanks in advance.

[Guest JohnB]

Re: Warning disk quota for end users

 

Do a Google search, there's a lots of script solutions for this. Here's

one:

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread2471.html

 

 

 

 

"Daniele" <Daniele@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:60556B2A-8D5B-42BD-A1F3-5E82FC961833@microsoft.com...

> Hi there,

>

> i'm using windows 2003 ent SP2 (not R2) with disk quota implemented.

> The customer wants me to have a warning message to be displayed for the

> users when they are near to their threshold.

> Is that possible with a windows builtin feature?

> As far as i know it's only possible to log an entry in the server's event

> viewer.

>

> Can u please help me ?

>

> Thanks in advance.