Re: Disk Quotas Applied to one system only through Group Policy - Windows 2003 AD
From: NoneOfBusiness (NoneOfBusiness_at_nob.net)
Date: 02/11/05
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Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:02:37 -0500
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 21:35:27 -0500, NoneOfBusiness
<NoneOfBusiness@nob.net> wrote:
>First off,I am posting this Win2003 AD question here because i didn't
>see a windows2003.group policy group.
>
>We are in the process of setting up a dedicated file server cluster
>that we would like to have disk quotas apply to and we like to manage
>these quotas via Group Policy, instead of in Quota Manager on the
>servers themselves. Ideally, we would like to do it this way to manage
>the quotas by groups of users who have different quota requirements
>instead of individually within quota manager.
>For example, we have two groups, a 50 meg user and a 100 meg user.
>When a user reached their quota and we want to give them more space,
>we move them to the larger group where the group policy handles the
>quota limits.
>
>I know already that this cannot be done via quota manager on the
>servers. It is individual users only. We are a site of 3000+ users so
>doing it this way would be a management nightmare. Before you ask, we
>are currently using novell for file/print services and ADS for Citrix
>and our enterprise application user management. We have been tasked
>with migrating everything off of Novell. This is to be a key necessity
>before we can fully move file services.
>
>But anyway, what i have done already is this for testing.
>1) Created a new OU and added a test file server into it.
>2) I have blocked inheritence to this OU so that only the group policy
>with quotas will be involved.
>3) I created a new group of users and added a couple of test domain
>users in the group which the policy applies to.
>
>My theory was that by doing this, the policy would only apply to the
>server in the OU. I tried it without the users and with the users in
>the OU as well and no luck. Disk quotas do not work on the test
>server. The only way they will work at all is if i turn on quotas on
>the server and manage by user on said machine, which is what i am
>trying to avoid anyway. The policies are ineffective.
>
>What am i missing? Has anyone successfully done this and if so, how
>did they accomplish it? if i can get it working on this test box, then
>porting the policy to a file cluster should not prevent me much of an
>issue.
>
>TIA
Surely someone has attempted this or has some advice. I cannot be the
only one wanting to do this
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