FSRM

[GRitchie]

Hello,

We're in the process of setting the quota on some of our users' folders.

 

We currently have the quota set directly on the right click, properties of the drive however I notice that FSRM is a much better way of doing this.

 

Our folder structure is as follows:

E:\Students\IntakeYEAR

 

If I apply the Year 7 quota template to E:\Students\Intake2014 does this apply it to that folder alone, or will it apply it to each user folder?

What I don't want to happen is the entire Intake2014 folder to be limited to 200MB, rather than just their own user folders.

 

 

 

Please can someone confirm whether or not this is the case?

Thanks!

[sister_annex]

There is an option when creating a quota in FSRM to 'Auto apply template and create quotas on existing and new subfolders'

 

this will do what you want automatically

 

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There is an option when creating a quota in FSRM to 'Auto apply template and create quotas on existing and new subfolders'

 

this will do what you want automatically

[GRitchie]

There is an option when creating a quota in FSRM to 'Auto apply template and create quotas on existing and new subfolders'

 

this will do what you want automatically

 

Hi - thanks for this!

I saw this option but wasn't sure if that would then do folders within a users folder?

 

So like this

200MB on E:\Students\

200MB on E:\Students\Intake\%username%

200MB on E:\Students\Intake\%username%\theirOwnFolder

 

etc.

[sister_annex]

With FSRM the best thing to do is create the template first.

 

Then when applying it, configure it to hit the top level folder, so for example, our user areas are set like this:

 

D:\Users\Intake2013\userX

D:\Users\Intake2013\userY

D:\Users\Intake2013\userZ

etc

 

We have quotas set on D:\USERS\Intake2013\* the * literally means that the quota template will apply to all sub-folders, so the template will (ours is 3Gb Hard) auto apply to any subfolder that is created - therefore when new accounts are created beneath the top level folder the quota will get automatically applied

 

Hope this makes sense

 

S_A

[GRitchie]

With FSRM the best thing to do is create the template first.

 

Then when applying it, configure it to hit the top level folder, so for example, our user areas are set like this:

 

D:\Users\Intake2013\userX

D:\Users\Intake2013\userY

D:\Users\Intake2013\userZ

etc

 

We have quotas set on D:\USERS\Intake2013\* the * literally means that the quota template will apply to all sub-folders, so the template will (ours is 3Gb Hard) auto apply to any subfolder that is created - therefore when new accounts are created beneath the top level folder the quota will get automatically applied

 

Hope this makes sense

 

S_A

 

Yes - this makes sense.

So basically it's just their folder that has the 200MB limit applied, not their folder AND their subfolders with their own 200MB limit.

[sister_annex]

Yes that's correct

[3s-gtech]

Just a point that can be missed - ensure that the folder Owner is set to the user. FSRM uses the Ownership information for the quota - if the owner is set to anyone else (like administrator or similar) it won't work properly. There are some neat scripts around to set this for you, if your folders have the same names as the AD users.

[GRitchie]

Just a point that can be missed - ensure that the folder Owner is set to the user. FSRM uses the Ownership information for the quota - if the owner is set to anyone else (like administrator or similar) it won't work properly. There are some neat scripts around to set this for you, if your folders have the same names as the AD users.

 

Huh? What do you mean by this, sorry?

[3s-gtech]

Ownership (right click on a file/folder, go to Properties, Security tab, Advanced, Owner tab) is the property that FSRM uses to manage quotas. If the files are set with the wrong owner, none of your quotas will work (and users will be able to save however much they want).

 

Paste the below script into a batch file and save it. Place the script and chown.exe into the root folder of the user group you want to change ownership of, then run the batch file.

 

for /D %%i in (*) do (
chown -r %%i "%%i\*.*"
)

 

Note: your user home folders must be named the same as their AD accounts. It won't matter if you have Desktop.ini files changing them all to show as 'Documents' though.

Edited November 21, 2014 by 3s-gtech