DISABLE QUOTA MANAGEMENT

4. You get a call from an administrator who cannot delete a quota entry for a user

account. What would you tell the administrator to check?

Lesson Summary

Use Windows XP Professional disk quotas to allocate disk space usage to users.

Windows XP Professional disk quotas track and control disk usage on a per-user,

per-volume basis. You can set disk quotas, quota thresholds, and quota limits for

all users and for individual users. You can apply disk quotas only to Windows XP

Professional NTFS volumes.

You can set identical quotas for all users or you can configure different quotas for

individual users.

You can determine the basic status of the quota management system by looking at

the traffic light indicator and the status text display on the Quota tab of a volume’s

Properties dialog box.

You can monitor disk quotas by using the Quota Entries For dialog box, which

you access by clicking Quota Entries on the Quota tab of a volume’s Properties

dialog box.

There are a number of guidelines you should follow when using disk quotas. The

most important guideline is that installing applications can use up disk quotas rap-

idly, so you should log on as an administrator without quota limits to install appli-

cations.