15.16. Setting the Default Quota for All Security Principals in a Partition
Tip
This recipe requires a Windows Server 2003 domain controller.
Problem
You want to set a default quota for all security principals.
Solution
Using a graphical user interface
Open ADSI Edit.
Connect to the partition you want to modify (has to be done on a per partition basis).
In the left pane, expand the root of the partition.
Right-click on
cn=NTDS Quotas
and select Properties.Set the
msDS-DefaultQuota
attribute to the number objects that security principals should be allowed to create if they are not assigned another quota.Click OK.
Using a command-line interface
Create an LDIF file called set_default_quota.ldf with the following contents:
dn: cn=NTDS Quotas,<PartitionDN
> changetype: modify replace: msDs-DefaultQuota msDs-DefaultQuota: <NumberOfObjects
> -
then run the following command:
> ldifde -v -i -f set_default_quota.ldf
Using VBScript
' This code sets the default quota for the specified partition ' ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------ strPartitionDN = "<PartitionDN
>" ' e.g. dc=rallencorp,dc=com intDefaultQuota = <NumberOfObjects
> ' e.g. 10 ' ------ END CONFIGURATION --------- set objPart = GetObject("LDAP://cn=NTDS Quotas," & strPartitionDN ) objPart.Put "msDs-DefaultQuota", intDefaultQuota objPart.SetInfo WScript.Echo "Set the default quota for " & _ strPartitionDN & " to " & intDefaultQuota
Discussion
The easiest way to apply a default quota to all of your users is to
modify the msDS-DefaultQuota
attribute on ...
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