Category: IT related

At work, we use Quotas on our User’s Homedrives. There is a default Quota on the Shared Homedir folder. There used to be multiple of these folders, and when a user got a larger Quota, the homedir had to be moved + the user’s account hat to be altered accordingly. Since it is a mapped drive, which is also offline synced on the Notebooks, this lead to quite some administrative work, if the user got a larger Quota.

So I’ve decided to set the quota using Active Directory groups + Powershell. This runs daily in a scheduled task.
Limitation: I do not remove non default quotas, if a user should get a larger Quota for a limited period, the Quota is not automatically removed. Could be automated, but is not a valid scenario in our case.

# Der übergeordnete Userhome Ordner hat die default Quota
# Die User welche in einer entsprechenden Quota-Gruppe sind erhalten die der Gruppe zugehörige Quota
# Entfernen aus der Gruppe führt nicht zur Entfernung der Quota!
# Nico Baumgartner, 27.07.2017

function set-homequota
{
param($group, $template)
$ConfirmPreference = "none"
$group = Get-ADGroupMember $group
    foreach ($user in $group)
    {
        $user = get-aduser $user -Properties homedirectory
        $homedir = "d:\home" + (get-item $user.HomeDirectory).BaseName
        if ($homedir -eq "d:\home")
        {
            $msg =  "Fehler beim Setzen der Quota für " + $user.Name + ", Ungültiger Pfad."
            Write-EventLog -LogName "Application" -Source "Rhenus Quota Script" -EventId 200 -EntryType Error -Message $msg
            write-host $msg
            $homedir = "" #Vermeiden, dass Quota für den überliegenden D:\Home\ Ordner geschrieben wird.
        }
        $aktquota = Get-FsrmQuota $homedir
        if ($template -eq $aktquota.template)
        {
            Write-Host $template
            Write-Host $aktquota
            write-host "Richtiges Template bereits zugewiesen" für $user.Name
        }
        Else
        {
            Remove-FsrmQuota $homedir -Confirm:$false
            new-FSRMQuota $homedir -Template $template -Confirm:$false
            $aktquota = ""
            $aktquota = Get-FsrmQuota $homedir
                    if ($template -eq $aktquota.template)
                    {
                    $msg =  "Neue Quota gesetzt für " + $user.Name
                    Write-EventLog -LogName "Application" -Source "Rhenus Quota Script" -EventId 101 -EntryType Information -Message $msg
                    Write-Host $msg
                    }
                    Else
                    {
                    $msg =  "Fehler beim Setzen der Quota für " + $user.Name
                    Write-EventLog -LogName "Application" -Source "Rhenus Quota Script" -EventId 200 -EntryType Error -Message $msg
                    write-host $msg
                    }                    
        }
    }
}

# New-EventLog -Source "Rhenus Quota Script" -LogName "Application"
Write-EventLog -LogName "Application" -Source "Rhenus Quota Script" -EventId 100 -EntryType Information -Message "Rhenus Quota Script gestartet"

$qgroup = "AA_RAG_CH_HomedriveQuota_0500MB_LG"
$template = "Rhenus 0500MB Homedrive"
set-homequota $qgroup $template

$qgroup = "AA_RAG_CH_HomedriveQuota_2000MB_LG"
$template = "Rhenus 2000MB Homedrive"
set-homequota $qgroup $template

$qgroup = "AA_RAG_CH_HomedriveQuota_8000MB_LG"
$template = "Rhenus 8000MB Homedrive"
set-homequota $qgroup $template