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Create quota templates (Office SharePoint Server)

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Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Topic Last Modified: 2016-11-14

In this article:

  • Create a new quota template

  • Edit an existing quota template

  • Delete a quota template

A quota template consists of storage limit values that specify how much data can be stored in a site collection and the storage size that triggers an e-mail alert to the site collection administrator when that size is reached. You can create a quota template that can be applied to any site collection in the farm.

Note

When you apply a quota template to a site collection, the storage limit applies to the site collection as a whole. In other words, the storage limit applies to the sum of the content sizes for the top-level site and all subsites within the site collection.

You can also modify existing quota templates. When a quota template is modified, the new storage limits you defined in the template will apply to any new site collection you create that uses that quota template. However, existing site collections to which the quota template has been previously applied will not be automatically updated to reflect the new storage limits.

Create a new quota template

  1. Click the Start button, point to All Programs, then point to Microsoft Office Server, and then click SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration.

  2. On the Central Administration home page, click Application Management.

  3. On the Application Management page, in the SharePoint Site Management section, click Quota templates.

  4. On the Quota Templates page, in the Template Name section, select Create a new quota template.

  5. Type the name of the new template in the New template name box.

    • If you want to base your new template on an existing quota template, click the Template to start from down arrow and select the desired template from the drop-down menu.

  6. In the Storage Limit Values section, set the values you want to apply to the template.

    1. If you want to restrict the amount of data that can be stored, click the Limit site storage to a maximum of check box and type the storage limit in megabytes into the text box.

    2. If you want an e-mail to be sent to the site collection administrator when a certain storage threshold is reached, click the Send warning E-mail when site storage reaches check box and type the threshold in megabytes into the text box.

  7. Click OK to create the new quota template, or click Cancel to cancel the operation and return to the Application Management page.

Edit an existing quota template

  1. Click the Start button, point to All Programs, then point to Microsoft Office Server, and then click SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration.

  2. On the Central Administration home page, click Application Management.

  3. On the Application Management page, in the SharePoint Site Management section, click Quota templates.

  4. In the Template Name section, click the Template to modify down arrow and select the template you want to edit from the drop-down menu.

  5. In the Storage Limit Values section, set the values you want to apply to the template.

    1. If you want to restrict the amount of data that can be stored, click the Limit site storage to a maximum of check box and type the storage limit in megabytes into the text box.

    2. If you want an e-mail to be sent to the site collection administrator when a certain storage threshold is reached, click the Send warning E-mail when site storage reaches check box and type the threshold in megabytes into the text box.

  6. Click OK to modify the quota template, or click Cancel to cancel the operation and return to the Application Management page.

Delete a quota template

  1. Click the Start button, point to All Programs, then point to Microsoft Office Server, and then click SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration.

  2. On the Central Administration home page, click Application Management.

  3. On the Application Management page, in the SharePoint Site Management section, click Quota templates.

  4. In the Template Name section, click the Template to modify down arrow and select the template you want to delete from the drop-down menu.

  5. Click the Delete button.

  6. Click OK on the dialog box that appears to delete the quota template.

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