Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

Managing Quota Templates
Chapter 15: Configuring Windows SharePoint Services 391
You manage quota templates from the SharePoint Central Administration pages for
your server or Web farm. You can create or delete templates or change the values in
the templates.
To create a quota template
1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then
click SharePoint Central Administration.
2. On the Central Administration page, under Component Configuration, click
Administer quotas and locks.
3. On the Administer Quotas And Locks page, click Manage Quota Templates.
4. On the Manage Quota Templates page, in the Template name area, click Create
a new quota template.
5. In the Template to start from: box, select a template to base your new template
on.
6. In the New template name box, type the name to use for your new quota
template.
7. Select the Limit site storage to a maximum of: ___ MB check box, and then
type the amount of storage to allow at a maximum.
8. In the Storage Limit Values section, select the Send warning e-mail when
site storage reaches ___ MB check box, and then type the amount of storage
to allow before sending a warning e-mail.
9. In the Invited User Limits section, select the Limit invited users to a maximum
of: ___ users, and then type the number of users to allow.
The user limit option is availablenly in Active Directory account mode.
10. Click OK.
When you click OK, the new template is added to the list of available
templates and the page is refreshed.
You can delete a quota template if you change your quota structures. However,
remember that deleting a quota template will not delete quota values from sites that
were created using the quota template. If you want to remove quotas from all sites
using a particular quota template, you must use the object model and perform a SQL
Server query.
To delete a quota template
1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then
click SharePoint Central Administration.