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Configure a quota

Configure a quota - Windows Server Tutorial

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Configure a quota

- [Instructor] So now, I'd like to show you how to create an actual quota. And this is done by going up to the Quotas section here under Quota Management. So if I click on it, you'll see that we have no quotas by default, right? There's a bunch of templates that we can use, but no actual quotas, so to create a quota, we simply right-click on Quotas, and select Create Quota. The first thing we have to do is determine the path, where on our drives are we putting this quota? So I'm going to click on Browse, and if I expand down my C drive, you'll see here that I have a folder that I created already called Sales Users. So I'm going to go ahead and select the Sales Users folder, just a blank folder that I created for this demonstration, and click OK. Now I have a couple of options on what to do next. I can either create the quota on path, so it's a quota just specifically for the Sales Users folder, or I could auto-apply…

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