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6. Right-click the QData volume you just created and click Properties . Click the Quota tab,
and then click the Enable quota management and Deny disk space to users exceeding quota
limit check boxes.
7. Click the Limit disk space to option button. Type 10 and click MB . In the Set warning level
to text box, type 5 and click MB . These numbers are set very low just for demonstration
purposes. Typically, quota limits and warning levels are set much higher.
8. Click both check boxes starting with Log event when a user exceeds . . . , and then click the
Quota Entries button. You see only a single entry, the default Administrators group. Close
the Quota Entries window, and then click OK to close the Properties dialog box. Click OK
in the Disk Quota message box to enable the quota system.
9. Right-click the QData volume and click Explore .
10. Create a folder called Shared . Right-click the Shared folder you just created and click Share .
In the list box at the top, click Everyone , and then click the Add button.
11. Click the Everyone entry in the list box at the bottom. Click the list arrow in the Permission
Level column, and then click Contributor in the list. Click the Share button, and then click
Done .
12. Close all open windows.

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Activity 6-2: Working with Quotas

Time Required: 15 minutes
Objective: Test disk quotas.
Description: You want to see how disk quotas work, so you log on to the domain from your
Vista computer as a test user. You copy files to the share on the server and examine the results
when you exceed the warning level and quota limit.
1. Log on to the domain from your Vista computer as testuser1 with the password Password01 .
2. Open Windows Explorer, navigate to C:\Windows\System32 , and copy the wmploc.dll file.
You're using this file because its size is larger than the warning level and smaller than the
quota limit.
3. Click Start , type \\serverXX\Shared in the Start Search text box, and press Enter . When the
Windows Explorer window opens, paste the wmploc.dll file into the share.
4. Log on to your server as Administrator, if necessary. Click Start , Computer . Right-click the
QData volume and click Properties . Click the Quota tab.
5. Click the Quota Entries button. You should see a new quota entry for testuser1 with a
Warning icon in the Status column. Double-click the testuser1 entry. If necessary, you could
assign a different quota limit and warning level for this user or choose not to limit disk
space. Click Cancel . Close the Quota Entries window.
6. On your Vista computer, copy the wmploc.dll file and paste it in the share. You should get
a message indicating that there's not enough space to copy the file. Click Cancel .
7. On your server, click to clear the Deny disk space to users exceeding quota limit check box,
and then click Apply .
8. On your Vista computer, try to copy and paste the wmploc.dll file into the share again.
When prompted, click Copy, but keep both files. You should be successful this time.
9. On your server, open the Quota Entries window again. Test User1 should now have an
Above Limit icon in the Status column. Close the Quota Entries window. In the Quota
tab of the volume's Properties dialog box, click to clear the Enable quota management
check box to disable quotas on the volume. Click Apply , and then click OK . Click OK
again.
10. Close all open windows on your server and Vista computer.