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394 Part V: Administration of Windows SharePoint Services
To view the current data for a site, you can also use the Site Collection Usage
Statistics Summary page for the top-level website.
To view quota data for a site
1. On the site you want to view data for, click Site Settings.
2. Under Administration, click Go to Site Administration.
3. Under Site Collection Administration, click View site collection usage
summary.
After you have checked the site quota data, you can change the quota values
for a site. Note that this action does not change the quota template, and the change
does not affect any site except the site you specify.
To change quota values for a site
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 Site Quota Settings and
Locks.
4. In the Select a top-level Web site section, type the URL in the Enter the toplevel
Web site URL box, and then click View Data.
5. In the Site Quota Information section, change the Limit storage to a maximum
of __ MB amount, Send warning e-mail when site storage reaches
__MB amount, or Maximum users allowed: amount setting.
6. Click OK.
Note The user limit option is available only in Active Directory account
mode.
Managing Locks
You can use locks to stop sites from exceeding your storage quota limits and to
block all users from accessing a site if necessary. Sites are locked automatically
when they exceed the maximum storage quota. You can also lock a site manually,
if, for example, it is in violation of your site use policies. Depending on the type of
lock, the result of a locked site is different. The differences are as follows:
■ When a site is locked for exceeding a storage quota limit, users who attempt to
upload new content see a disk full error.