How to Create Quota Management in FSRM

Introduction

In this article, I’m going to show you how to create quota management in file server resource management in a proper and easiest method.

Before that, you need to know what is quota management file server resource management, and sharing folders.

Quota management

Managing quotas is the best way to define how much space is available to a user, or group of users, on a file server. For example, limit users to 5GB on a shared folder.

File Server Resource Management

I already wrote the article about file server resource management. You can read my How to Install the File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) (c-sharpcorner.com) article on c-sharpcorner.

Shared Folder

This topic is also my How to Share a Drive and Mapping for Client User? (c-sharpcorner.com) article on c-sharpcorner.

Create Quota Management in FSRM

Step 1. On your server manager, click "tools” then click "File Server Resource Manager".

Step 2. Click "quota management" and double-click "quota".

Step 3. Click "Create quota".

Step 4. Click "Browse".

Step 5. Locate your shared folder. Here I already shared a folder. If you want to know how to share a folder, you can visit my article How to Share a Drive and Mapping for Client User? (c-sharpcorner.com) in the c# corner.

Step 6. After clicking "derive properties" you can see the already created default template. Choose your need or you can customize your need from the customize quota template settings, then click "create".

Customize Quota Template

Step 6.1. Click "quota templates" in FSRM. After that click “create quota template".

Step 6.2. Give your quota manager name with limited GB, and after that, click "add".

Step 6.3. Allocate usage limits here. I changed 75% for usage after that click "ok".

Step 6.4. Click "ok".

Step 7. Now you can see the quota-created folder with limited GB.

Conclusion

In this article, we all clearly understand how to create quota management in file server resource management using the proper method. If there is clarification regarding this topic, feel free to contact me.