MCTS to MCITP , 70-351 , 70-089 , 70-236 , 70-640 , 70-642 , 70-646 , 70-630 , 70-285 , 83-640: October 2010

Friday, October 15, 2010

Applying Disk Quota for Domain Users , Windows 2003

About Disk Quotas
Earlier in Windows NT Administrators were unable to apply Disk Quotas to users as this feature was not available, but with the introduction of Windows 2000 their comes the induction of Disk Quota Management through Group Policy easing the life of System Administrators.The Only Problem left was this has not much features that Admins can use with Scripting,Reporting and Remote Usage. Windows 2003 has all the features like reporting,managing and remote usage of Disk Quota.

Disk Quota can only be Implemented with System Running with NTFS partitions. FAT/FAT32 are not supported.Disk quota are configured on Volume basis so one need to configure Separate Volumes.
This was some how introduction to Disk Quota, now let start how to configure this on Windows 2003 Server.

Setting Up Group Policy
The most practical means of configuring disk quotas on a large scale would be through a domain-level group policy. This will configure the settings automatically on any of the volumes you wish to have disk quotas enabled, saving you the need to have to configure each volume independently.
Open Group Policy Management Console(Enter gpedit.msc at Run), Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Disk Quotas. On the right hand pane you will see a list of policies that can be applied. Double click the “Default Quota Limit and Warning Level Properties” setting.
















Figure 1. The Default Quota Limit and Warning Level Properties Dialog

Default Value was 100 MB, I changed this to 10 MB.You can set what ever value suits your organization needs.You can apply further setting you need to aply on users.
You may also want to manually force a group policy update using the gpupdate utility. Simply go to Start > Run and type "gpupdate /force" followed by the return key. This will refresh both the computer and user policies


Configuring Disk Quota and Disk Quota Enteries
Using the Computer Management console, you can configure disk quotas for a local or remote volume from a central location. To open Computer Management, you have three choices; either right click My Computer and select Manage, type compmgmt.msc in the Run bar or select Computer Management from the Administrative Tools folder.
Select which computer you wish to manage from the root node. To select a remote machine right click the “Computer Management” node, select “Connect to another computer…” and choose the computer you wish to manage. Now, navigate to Storage > Disk Management and select the volume you want to configure from the right hand pane and open the properties dialog. Click the Quota tab and enable the options you want to be enforced.











Figure 2. Disk Quota Dialog Box

Click Quota Entries and Furhter Add Domain Users to apply Disk Quota Entries.Navigate to “Quota” and Click “New Quota Entry”.















Figure 3: Adding a new User Quota Entry
Enter Disk Space you need to apply for a particular user















Figure 4: Adding a new quota entry

Press “OK” and enter.Disk Quota applied to a Particular User.
















Figure 5: Viewing a list of Quota Entries

This article has given you an overview of Disk Quotas in Windows 2003. We’ve looked at why they would be used and how to configure them.






Enhanced by Zemanta

Monday, October 11, 2010

MCITP Track Information ( For Starters and Professionals )


Dear Folks,

As you all know new Products and Technologies are touching the IT Market

Day by day.Microsoft Being the Most Advance Organization that gives

Training and Support for its Products all over the world and having the

Cheapest Certificaion Rates.I fortunately been a part of Some Micrsoft Products

Like Server 2008,Server 2003,ISA Server 2006,Windows 7,Windows XP and others.

Reason for Writing this matter is to Provide Knowledge to People about some of

Microsoft Technology Tracks as well as Professional Tracks.

Many of You People Asks me about Different Tracks,Paper Codes and Study Material.

So, I decided to Upload Some of the Most Popular Tracks with their Paper Codes on my Blog.


Server 2008 Administration Track :










MCTS ( Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuring ) 70-640
MCTS ( Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuring ) 70-642
MCITP ( Windows Server 2008, Server Administrator ) 70-646

This Track will earn you MCITP Server Admin Certification but this is not the End of Track.
There is one more Certification Track which Leads you to be an "EnterPrise Administrator".

MCTS ( Windows Server 2008 Applications, Configuring ) 70-643
MCITP ( Windows Server 2008, Enterprise Administrator ) 70-647

ISA Server 2006 has only one Certification i.e :

MCTS ( Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2006, Configuring ) 70-351















Microsoft Exchange 2007 :



















MCTS ( Exchange Server 2007, Configuring ) 70-236
MCITP ( Designing Messaging Solutions with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 ) 70-237
MCITP ( Deploying Messaging Solutions with Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 ) 70-238

Windows 7 :
















MCTS ( Windows 7, Configuring ) 70-680
MCITP ( Upgrading to Windows 7 MCITP Enterprise Desktop Support Technician ) 70-682


These are Some of the Certification Tracks that you might require for you Professional Career Growth.

Hope this Works fine for you.

Thanks,

Himayat Ullah Khan,
MCITP ( Server Admin )
MCTS ( ISA 2006 )
CCNA ( R & S )

Give us your FeedBack . 
Email Us : hiukhan@gmail.comhttp://officems.blogspot.comhttp://officems.blogspot.com/