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Thanks I am trying to test this on a test server and I cannot find an option to set a limit of 500mb for media files... I can see the overall quota limit option for all file types and I can also stop users saving certain file types but cannot see how to set a limit on how many media files they can save.... Am I missing something?
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Thanks I am trying to test this on a test server and I cannot find an option to set a limit of 500mb for media files... I can see the overall quota limit option for all file types and I can also stop users saving certain file types but cannot see how to set a limit on how many media files they can save.... Am I missing something?

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What I am after cannot be done but we can set the quotas on specific folder and screen file types. Thanks Richard.
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What I am after cannot be done but we can set the quotas on specific folder and screen file types. Thanks Richard.

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Hello,<br />
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In my organisation we redirect all &quot;my documents&quot; folders on all user workstations to a file server. Some people use ITunes and similar applications and save their music and videos to &quot;My Documents&quot; folder. As you can imagine there are many gigabytes of non-business related content on the file server. I have raised this issue with the management and have been instructed to allow director level users to save what they want and limit the rest to 500GB but only for media files so there shouldn’t be a limit on anything else. Is this possible on Server 2008?<br />

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Hello,

In my organisation we redirect all "my documents" folders on all user workstations to a file server. Some people use ITunes and similar applications and save their music and videos to "My Documents" folder. As you can imagine there are many gigabytes of non-business related content on the file server. I have raised this issue with the management and have been instructed to allow director level users to save what they want and limit the rest to 500GB but only for media files so there shouldn’t be a limit on anything else. Is this possible on Server 2008?


Quotas for media files

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Windows Server 2008

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