If you are going to use Windows Server as a file server then it is a good idea to make use of the File Server Resource Manager. The File Server Resource Manager is a tool that was introduced in ...

Recently we took a look at quotas in Server 2008, and I mentioned that there are two kinds: File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) quotas, and the older NTFS kind. The FSRM console seems to provide no ...

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Have you ever noticed that your file server storage space has quickly run out after upgrading the file server storage device? Your management might say: "Our employees are doing a great job! They are ...

It did. Microsoft gave us disk quotas with the NTFS file system at least as far back as Windows 2000. (In the olden days, Novell used to beat up Microsoft on this point, because NetWare had quotas and ...

Q: A company's administrator has installed the FSRM role service to manage stored data on a file server. The administrator would like to configure quotas limits for users when they create new folders.

We have set a quota within File Server Resource Manager on a project folder which is supposed to propagate to all subfolders. It now appears all new subfolders that are added to that main folder are ...