Configure file and print services - Administering Windows Server 2012 R2 - page 70

Creating a quota template
You can create a quota template completely from scratch or by starting with one of the
existing templates and modifying it for your own specific needs. Templates can have the
following properties:
■ Hard or soft quotas A hard quota prevents a user from saving files when the limit is
reached. A soft quota only warns the user (and usually the administrator) and is useful
for monitoring usage.
■ Space Limits The space limits can be specified in kilobytes (KB), megabytes (MB),
gigabytes (GB), or terabytes (TB). The limit is applied only to a specific path of a quota;
it doesn't affect other volumes or paths.
■ Notification Thresholds You can specify as many or as few notification thresholds
as you need. Each threshold is triggered when usage reaches a percentage of the
space limit and can trigger email, trigger an event in the event log, run a command or
script, cause one or more reports to be generated, or a combination of these actions.
For more on these actions, see the following section, “Notification actions.”
To create a new template, follow these steps:

Select Quota Templates in the console tree of the FSRM console and then click Create
Quota Template in the Actions pane.

1.

To start with the settings of an existing template, select the template from the Copy
Properties From Quota Template (Optional) list and then click Copy.

2.

3. Enter a Template Name and a description; and then modify the settings of Space Limit,
Hard Quota Or Soft Quota, and Notification Thresholds as appropriate for your new
template.

4. Click OK when you complete configuring the new quota and it is available for
immediate use.
You can also create a new template by using the New-FsrmQuotaTemplate cmdlet or
modify an existing template by using Set-FsrmQuotaTemplate. The process is similar to that
used when creating a new quota. You first define the thresholds and actions for the quota,
saving them in a variable, and then use the variables in the New-FsrmQuotaTemplate or
Set-FsrmQuotaTemplate cmdlets. Alternately, you can pipe the thresholds and actions to the
New-FsrmQuotaTemplate or Set-FsrmQuotaTemplate cmdlets.

Notification actions
When a quota reaches one of the thresholds set in the quota, it can trigger multiple actions,
as specified in the Notification Thresholds box of the quota. There are four basic kinds of
actions that can be triggered:
■ Email Message

Sends an email to the user or administrator that the event was

triggered