MCSA/MCSE Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-270): Installing ...

10-44 Chapter 10 Managing Data Storage
■ Generally, you should set disk quotas on shared volumes to limit storage for users.
Set disk quotas on public folders and network servers to ensure that users share
hard disk space appropriately. When storage resources are scarce, you might want
to set disk quotas on all shared hard disk space.
■ Delete disk quota entries for users who no longer store files on a volume. You can
delete quota entries for a user account only after all files that the user owns have
been removed from the volume or after another user has taken ownership of the
files.
Practice: Managing Disk Quotas
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In this practice, you configure default quota management settings to limit the amount
of data users can store on drive C (their hard disk drive). Next, you configure a custom
quota setting for a user account. You increase the amount of data the user can store on
drive C to 10 MB with a warning level set to 6 MB. Finally, you turn off quota management
for drive C.
Note If you did not install Windows XP Professional on drive C, substitute the NTFS partition
on which you did install Windows XP Professional whenever drive C is referred to in the
practice.
Exercise 1: Configure Quota Management Settings
In this exercise, you configure the quota management settings for drive C to limit the
data that users can store on the volume. You then configure custom quota settings for
a user account.
To configure default quota management settings
1. Log on with an account that is a member of the Administrators group.
2. Use the User Accounts tool in Control Panel to create a user account named User5
and assign it a Limited account type.
3. In Windows Explorer, right-click the drive C icon, and then click Properties.
Windows XP Professional displays the Local Disk (C:) Properties dialog box with
the General tab active.
4. Click the Quota tab.
Notice that disk quotas are disabled by default.
5. In the Quota tab, select the Enable Quota Management check box.
Notice that by default, the Do Not Limit Disk Usage option is selected.