File Server Resource Manager

No matter how much storage you have on your file servers, users always manage to fill it up. Even if you restrict Internet access so that they can’t download their favorite games and pictures, they still pack your servers with various documents and other assorted business-related and “other” files that they just can’t live without. Is it really necessary to retain WordPerfect 5.0–formatted documents from 1993?

In most environments, the administrator must have a mechanism to monitor and control the amount of space that users are allocated. Although there have always been third-party utilities available to control disk usage, Microsoft finally included the Disk Quota feature in its operating systems starting with Windows 2000. Previous to the R2 release of Windows Server 2003, the Disk Quota feature in Windows Server 2003 was largely unchanged since the initial version.