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Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

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390 Part V: Administration of Windows SharePoint Services<br />

Enabling Quotas<br />

The quota feature is disabled by default in Windows SharePoint Services—there<br />

are no default quota values or templates. To enable quotas, you use the following<br />

methods:<br />

■ To use quotas for your server or Web farm, you create a quota template.<br />

■ To use quotas for a particular virtual server, you assign a default quota template<br />

to that virtual server.<br />

■ To use quotas for a particular top-level website, you assign a quota template to<br />

the top-level website when you create the site.<br />

■ To use a set of quota values for a single site only, you can apply specific quota<br />

limits to the site itself, independent of any quota template.<br />

You can reverse your decision to use quotas at any point in the hierarchy. For<br />

example, applying a default quota template to a virtual server does not mean that all<br />

top-level websites under that virtual server must use the quota limits—it only means<br />

that they can. Settings that you apply to a single site can be cleared if you no longer<br />

want to use quotas.<br />

About Quota Templates<br />

Quota templates <strong>and</strong> the settings specified in them are stored in the configuration<br />

database for your server or server farm. Quota values apply to top-level websites<br />

<strong>and</strong> are applied when you create a top-level website. You can specify a default template<br />

to use for all top-level websites created on a virtual server, for example, or you<br />

can specify the template to use when you create the top-level website. The values<br />

listed in the quota template are copied into the database for the top-level website<br />

<strong>and</strong> are referenced from there.<br />

Note If you change the values for a quota template, those changes apply<br />

only to new top-level websites created using that template, not to existing<br />

top-level websites. If you want to apply the template changes to existing<br />

sites, you must use the Windows SharePoint Services object model to make<br />

the change with a SQL Server query. Likewise, when you delete a quota template,<br />

the template is removed from the configuration database, but any<br />

top-level websites created using that template will retain the quota values.<br />

If you want to remove quotas from all sites using a particular quota template,<br />

you must use the object model <strong>and</strong> perform a SQL Server query.

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