1. Module 12: Configuring and Managing Storage Technologies
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Module 12: Configuring and Managing Storage Technologies
Presentation: 60 minutes
Lab: 60 minutes
Module 12: Configuring and Managing Storage Technologies
This module will help students understand common capacity and storage management challenges, and learn about storage technologies that can be configured and managed to address the problems. This module also describes how to analyze usage trends, and how to implement solutions to meet user requirements, while complying with company policy and industry and regulatory standards.
After completing this module, students will be able to:
Describe Windows Server®°2008 operating system storage management.
Manage storage using Windows Server®°2003 R2 File Server Resource Manager
Configure quota management
Implement file screening
Manage storage reports
Required materials
To teach this module, you need the Microsoft® Office PowerPoint® file 6421A_12.ppt.
Important It is recommended that you use PowerPoint 2002 or a later version to display the slides for this course. If you use PowerPoint Viewer or an earlier version of PowerPoint, all of the slide features might not display correctly.
Preparation tasks
To prepare for this module:
Read all of the materials for this module.
Practice performing the demonstrations and the lab exercises.
Work through the Module Review and Takeaways section, and determine how you will use this
section to reinforce student learning and promote knowledge transfer to on-the-job performance.
Make sure that students are aware that the Course Companion CD has additional information and resources for the module.

2. Module 12: Configuring and Managing Storage Technologies
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Module Overview
Module 12: Configuring and Managing Storage Technologies
Module 12: Configuring and Managing Storage Technologies
Windows Server 2008 Storage Management Overview
Managing Storage Using File Server Resource Manager
Configuring Quota Management
Implementing File Screening
Managing Storage Reports 2

3. Lesson 1: Windows Server 2008 Storage Management Overview
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Lesson 1: Windows Server 2008 Storage Management Overview
Module 12: Configuring and Managing Storage Technologies
Module 12: Configuring and Managing Storage Technologies
Common Capacity Management Challenges
Common Storage Management Challenges
Addressing Capacity and Storage Management Challenges
What Is File Server Resource Manager? 3

4. Common Capacity Management Challenges
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Common Capacity Management Challenges
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Module 12: Configuring and Managing Storage Technologies
Capacity management challenges include:
Determining existing storage capacity and usage trends across the organization
Determining whether usage effectively supports organizational goals
Defining and implementing storage policies
Adjusting the policies as capacity needs grow, and as organizational needs change
Define capacity management as the process of planning, analyzing, sizing, and optimizing methods to satisfy an organization’s continual increase in data storage demands.
Explain that capacity management also is an attempt to control corporate storage misuse. Many users tend to store large personal multimedia files, such as MP3s or digital photos, as well as other types of data, such as screensavers and games.
Begin this topic by asking students for their input and experiences within their organizations on challenges that they face with capacity management. As you introduce each one of these points, you can involve the students in a discussion of how they have, or have not, addressed these challenges. 4

5. Common Storage Management Challenges
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Common Storage Management Challenges
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Module 12: Configuring and Managing Storage Technologies
Storage management challenges include:
Many organizations experience a growth in storage requirements from 60 to 100 percent per year
Mission-critical data must be available continuously
Organizations must comply with the latest regulatory requirements
The number of storage-intensive applications on the market has increased
Introduce each of the storage management challenges, and then discuss with the students how this relates to their organizations.
Ask students the following questions:
Question: What are some of the storage challenges in your organization? Answer: Answers will vary based on the different applications that each student’s company uses.
Question: Consider internal retention policies. Are these policies in place because of internal requirements or because of external requirements? Answer: Answers will vary.
Question: Do organizations have regularly increasing storage requirements? Answer: Answers will vary. 5

6. Addressing Capacity and Storage Management Challenges
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Addressing Capacity and Storage Management Challenges
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Consider the following to help address capacity and storage management challenges:
Explain that many larger organizations may implement storage solutions based upon storage area network (SAN) or network attached storage (NAS) technologies. Windows Server°2008 provides many tools to help manage storage such as the SANS Storage Manager. However, there are tools that organizations can use without a large investment in hardware, such as the File Server Resource Manager (FSRM). This tool is discussed later in this module.
You can use FRSM to increase the return on investment on existing storage systems in the following ways:
Quotas can set limits on storage. This allows current storage to be allocated in a linear fashion.
File screening can enforce file type policy. This can prevent users from storing unsupported files.
Reports can allow you to find out if there are duplicate files in the network, which often are a considerable source of wasted space.
Analyze how storage is being used
Define storage resource management policies
Implement policies to attempt to slow storage growth
Acquire tools to implement policies 6

7. What Is File Server Resource Manager?
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What Is File Server Resource Manager?
Module 12: Configuring and Managing Storage Technologies
Module 12: Configuring and Managing Storage Technologies
File Server Resource Manager is a File Services role that integrates:
Describe the four concepts that FSRM uses to address storage capacity requirements. Do not go into too much detail on each feature, as the new few lessons will cover this information.
Monitors usage patterns and utilization levels
Capacity Management
Restricts unauthorized files (file screening)
Policy Management
Provides extensive storage reports
Reports 7

8. Lesson 2: Managing Storage Using File Server Resource Manager
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Lesson 2: Managing Storage Using File Server Resource Manager
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FSRM Functions
Demonstration: Installing the FSRM Role Service
FSRM Console Components
FSRM Configuration Options
Demonstration: Configuring FSRM Options 8

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FSRM Functions
Module 12: Configuring and Managing Storage Technologies
Module 12: Configuring and Managing Storage Technologies
Using FSRM, you can perform the following tasks:
Create quotas to limit the space allowed for a volume or folder
Have quotas automatically generated
Create file screens
Monitor attempts to save unauthorized files
Define quota and file screening templates
Generate scheduled or on-demand storage reports
Describe the functions related to FSRM. Students may have questions about how FSRM quotas relate to NTFS file system quotas. Explain that this will be discussed in a later topic.
References
Help Topic: File Server Resource Manager 9

10. Demonstration: Installing the FSRM Role Service
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Demonstration: Installing the FSRM Role Service
Module 12: Configuring and Managing Storage Technologies
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In this demonstration, you will see how to:
Install the File Services role
Install and configure the File Server Resource Manager Role Service
View the FSRM console
For this demonstration, perform the following tasks:
Show how to install the File Services role. On NYC-SRV1, use the Server Manager console to start the Add Roles Wizard. Install a new File Service.
Install the File Server Resource Manager Role Service by selecting File Server Resource Manager.
Show how to configure volume during installation. Choose to monitor drive E:, and accept the default location for storage reports.
Open the FSRM console. 10

11. FSRM Console Components
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FSRM Console Components
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Explain that after the role service has been installed, a console is available containing three main management components:
Quota Management node. This node is where you define file storage quotas. The Quota Templates node allows you to edit and create quotas.
File Screening Management node. This node is where you define file screens. The File Screen Templates node is where you edit and define file screen templates. The File Groups node allows you to edit and create groups of common file types. For example, you can create an Audio Files group in which all MP3 and WMA files are stored.
Storage Reports Management node. This node is where you generate and manage reports. You can use this node to configure reporting options.
You will demonstrate these components after the next topic.
References
Help Topic: File Server Resource Manager 11

12. FSRM Configuration Options
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FSRM Configuration Options
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Module 12: Configuring and Managing Storage Technologies
FSRM configuration options include:
Configuring notifications
Configuring the default parameters for storage reports
Changing report repository locations
Configuring file screen audit
Describe that you can configure several options that relate to the entire FSRM feature. These configuration options include the following:
notifications: Explain that you would configure this option when you create quotas and file screens. You have the option of sending notifications to users when their quota limit is approaching or after they have attempted to save blocked files. If you want to routinely notify certain administrators of quota and file screening events, you can configure one or more default recipients. To send these notifications, you must specify the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server to be used for forwarding the messages.
Configure Storage Reports: These default parameters are used for incident reports that are generated when a quota or file screening event occurs. They also are used for both scheduling and on-demand reports, but you can change the default parameters when defining the specific properties of each report.
Configure Report Repositories: This option provides the ability to specify the location where storage reports will be saved on a disk. A default path has been defined at %systemdrive%\StorageReports, but you can change that path.
Configure File Screen Audit: This option enables file screening activity recording in an auditing database. This information is used to create the File Screen Audit Report.
References
Setting File Server Resource Manager Options 12

13. Demonstration: Configuring FSRM Options
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Demonstration: Configuring FSRM Options
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In this demonstration, you will see how to configure FSRM options
For this demonstration, perform the following tasks:
Configure notifications.
Demonstrate the storage report parameters and default report repository locations.
Show how to enable file screen auditing. 13

14. Lesson 3: Configuring Quota Management
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Lesson 3: Configuring Quota Management
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What Is Quota Management?
FSRM Quotas vs. NTFS Disk Quotas
What Are Quota Templates?
Creating and Modifying a Quota
Monitoring Quota Usage
Demonstration: How to Create and Manage Quotas 14

15. What Is Quota Management?
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What Is Quota Management?
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Limiting storage space via a hard or soft quota and generating notifications when the limits are approached or exceeded
Describe what quota management is and how you can use it. Examples that can be discussed include the following:
A hard quota is a quota that cannot be exceeded. The Windows system will prevent files from being written to the drive if the file will cause the quota limit to be breached.
A soft quota can be exceeded, and is used for notification purposes only.
Discuss the following scenarios with the students. Ask the students to determine if the scenario is using a hard or soft quota:
You can place a 200 MB limit on each user’s personal folder on a server, with a notification to both you and the user when the user exceeds 180 MB of storage.
A flexible 500 MB quota on a group’s shared folder can be set. When this storage limit is reached, all users in the group are notified by that the storage quota has been temporarily extended to 520 MB, thereby allowing them to delete unnecessary files and comply with the preset 500 MB quota policy.
You can receive a notification when a temporary folder reaches 2 gigabytes (GB) of usage, yet not limit that folder’s quota because it is necessary for a service running on your server.
References
Quota Management
Notification thresholds can be configured to:
Send notifications
Log an event
Run a command or script
Generate storage reports 15

16. FSRM Quotas vs. NTFS Disk Quotas
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FSRM Quotas vs. NTFS Disk Quotas
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Quota Features
NTFS Disk Quotas
FSRM Quotas
Quota Tracking
Per user/per volume
By folder or by volume
Disk Usage Calculation
Logical file size
Actual disk space
Notification Mechanisms
Event logs only
, custom reports, command execution, event logs
This topic provides an illustration of the difference between NTFS quota management, which has been available since the Windows®°2000 Server operating system and the FSRM quota management capabilities.
One question that students might have is about the quota tracking functionality. Explain that FSRM quotas are configured by folder or volume. This provides the ability to assign permissions for specific users or groups to have access to these folders or volumes, which inherently assigns the quotas that have been applied to these objects. 16

17. What Are Quota Templates?
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What Are Quota Templates?
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A quota template defines:
A space limit
The type of quota (hard or soft quota)
A set of notifications to be generated when the quota limit is approached
This topic defines the quota template and explains why it might be easier to create quotas based upon a template. Be sure to explain that by creating quotas exclusively from templates, you can manage your quotas centrally by updating the templates instead of the individual quotas. This feature simplifies the implementation of storage policy changes by providing one central point where all updates can be made.
Be sure to introduce the default quota templates. You may want to do this by opening the console and showing the default templates list.
As you introduce the default quota templates, provide examples or have the students provide examples of how each default template can be used. You then can demonstrate how to create a template based on one of the examples provided by the students.
References
Create a quota template
A number of default Quota Templates are provided in the Quota Management node of FSRM 17

18. Creating and Modifying a Quota
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Creating and Modifying a Quota
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When creating a quota, options include:
Create quota on path
Auto apply template and create quotas on existing and new subfolders
This topic describes how to create and modify quotas. Be sure to stress that even though custom quotas can be created based upon a path, the best practice is to create quotas based on predefined templates. Also stress the difference between standard and auto quotas.
Note that by default when you create an auto quota, the view can be filtered to display only the parent folder. As you demonstrate the creation of auto quotas, be sure to modify the filter to display all of the subfolders that have had auto quotas created.
Also point out that you can use the Dirquota command-line tool to create and modify quotas. A description of the command include:
Quota: List, add, modify, or delete quotas
Autoquota: List, add, modify, and delete auto apply quotas
Template: List, add, modify, and delete quota templates
Admin: Configure settings and perform administrative operations
References
Create an auto quota
Modify a quota by:
Updating quotas by editing a quota template
Editing an auto quota
Updating individual quotas listed in the details pane
Dirquota {Quota | Autoquota | Template | Admin} 18

19. Monitoring Quota Usage
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Monitoring Quota Usage
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After configuring and applying quotas to your file shares or volumes, it is important to understand how to monitor disk usage to effectively meet your organization’s ongoing storage requirements.
Describe the points listed below:
Viewing quota information. To view quota information in FSRM, in the console tree, click Quota Management, and then click Quotas. In the results pane, you can quickly determine the quota limit, the percentage of the limit that is used, and whether the quota is hard or soft. To view additional information about a quota, select the quota. The description area lists the notification thresholds and notes the remaining space available on the volume on which the quota was created.
Generating a Quota Usage report. Use the Quota Usage report to identify quotas that might soon be exceeded so that you can take the appropriate action.
Creating soft quotas. To monitor overall disk usage, explain that you might also want to create soft quotas for volumes or shares. FSRM provides two default templates that you can use (or adapt) for this purpose: the Monitor 200 GB Volume Usage template and the Monitor 500 MB Share template.
Note: Quotas reduce the input/output (I/O) per-second performance of the storage subsystem by a small amount (10 percent or less). Servers that apply quotas to more than 10,000 folders might experience a larger performance overhead.
References
What to expect during initial replication
You can monitor quota usage by:
Viewing quota information
Generating a Quota Usage report
Creating soft quotas
Quotas typically have an I/O performance overhead of 10 percent or less 19

20. Demonstration: How to Create and Manage Quotas
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Demonstration: How to Create and Manage Quotas
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In this demonstration, you will see how to:
Create a new quota template
Create a new quota based on a quota template
Generate a quota notification
For this demonstration perform the following tasks:
Create a new quota template with the following parameters:
Create a new quota based upon the quota template created in the previous task. Place the quota on the Projects folder.
Generate a quota notification by attempting to add more data to the folder than the quota allows.
Parameter
Setting
Template name
250 MB Limit—Report to Administrator
Quota limit
250 MB
Quota type
Soft
Notifications
Limit (100%): Send to the administrator, and send warning to the event log
Warning (85%): Send to the administrator, and send warning to the event log
Warning (50%): Send to the administrator 20

21. Lesson 4: Implementing File Screening
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Lesson 4: Implementing File Screening
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What Is File Screening?
What Are File Groups?
What Is a File Screen Exception?
What Is a File Screen Template?
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What Is File Screening?
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Provides a flexible method to control the types of files that are saved on company servers
This topic describes the concept of file screening and how you can use it to control the types of files that are saved on company servers. You might want to start a discussion with the students about the issue of storing files—such as MP3s, photos, and other large multimedia or personal files—on company-based servers.
Note: File screening only operates based on the file extension. Therefore, file name extensions can be renamed to circumvent the file screening.
Common usage examples include:
Ensuring that no music files are stored in personal folders on a server, yet allowing storage of specific media file types that support legal rights management or comply with company policies. At the same time, you may want to give a company Vice President special privileges to store any type of files in a personal folder.
Implementing a screening process to notify you by when a non-authorized file is stored on a shared folder, so that the appropriate precautionary steps can be taken. Information can include the user that stored the file, and the file’s exact location.
References
File Screening Management
The File Screening Management node allows you to:
Create file screens
Define file screen templates
Create file screen exceptions
Create file groups 22

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What Are File Groups?
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Used to define a namespace for a file screen, file screen exception, or storage report
Describe the concept of file groups. Explain that FSRM provides several default file groups. You can define additional file groups, or change the files to be included and excluded. Any changes that you make to a file group affect all existing file screens, templates, and reports to which the file group has been added.
File Group example:
An Audio Files file group might include the following file name patterns:
Files to include: *.mp*. Includes all audio files created in current and future MPEG formats (MPG, MP2, MP3, and so forth).
Files to exclude: *.mpp. Excludes files created in Microsoft Project (.mpp files), which would otherwise be included by the *.mp* inclusion rule.
References
Define file groups for screening
A file group consists of a set of file name patterns, which are grouped into:
Files to include
Files to exclude 23

24. What Is a File Screen Exception?
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What Is a File Screen Exception?
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A file screen exception overrides any file screen that would otherwise apply to a folder and all its subfolders in a designated exception path
Explain that a file screen exception is a special type of file screen that overrides any file screening that would otherwise apply to a folder and all its subfolders, in a designated exception path. However, note that you cannot create a file screen exception on a folder for which you already have a file screen. You must assign the exception to a subfolder or make changes to the existing file screen.
Example:
You might want to block video files from a file server, but you need to allow your training group to save the video files for their computer-based training. To allow files that other file screens are blocking, create a file screen exception.
References
Create a file screen exception 24

25. What Is a File Screen Template?
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What Is a File Screen Template?
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A file screen template defines:
Which file groups to block
The type of screening to perform
A set of notifications to be generated
Explain that by creating file screens exclusively from templates, you can manage your file screens centrally by updating the templates instead of the individual file screens. When you make changes to a template, you can choose to apply those changes to all file screens that are based on that template or only to those file screens whose properties match those in the template. This feature simplifies the implementation of storage policy changes, by providing one central point from where all updates can be made.
Point out that there are several default file screen templates that you can use.
References
Create a file screen template 25

26. Demonstration: Implementing File Screening
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Demonstration: Implementing File Screening
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In this demonstration, you will see how to:
Create a file screen based on a file screen template
Create a file screen exception based on a custom file group
For this demonstration perform the following tasks:
Create a new file screen in the Projects folder based upon the Block Audio and Video Files default template.
Create a new custom file group and create a file screen exception to allow Microsoft Windows Media® Player audio (WMA) files. 26

27. Lesson 5: Managing Storage Reports
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Lesson 5: Managing Storage Reports
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What Are Storage Reports?
What Is a Report Task?
Generating On-Demand Reports 27

28. What Are Storage Reports?
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What Are Storage Reports?
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Storage reports provide information about file usage on a file server
Types of storage reports include:
This topic explains what storage reports are and describes the available FSRM reports. Point out that you can enable or disable quotas and file screens storage reports in each of the report parameters. Also point out that storage reports (depending on their level of detail) might not be in compliance with privacy laws, and that the students need to talk to their organization’s privacy officer prior to implementing reports
Examples of storage report usage:
You can schedule a report that will run every Sunday at midnight, generating a list of the previous two days’ most recently used files. With this information, you can monitor weekend storage activity and plan server downtime with less impact on those users that connect from home over the weekend.
You can run a report at any given time to identify all duplicate files in a volume on a server, so disk space can be quickly reclaimed without losing any data.
You can run a File by File Group report to identify how storage resources are segmented across different file groups or a File by Owner report to analyze how individual users are using shared storage resources.
References
Storage Reports
Large Files
Files by Owner
Files by File Group
Duplicate Files
Least Recently Used Files
Most Recently Used Files
Quota Usage
File Screening Audit 28

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What Is a Report Task?
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You can schedule reports by creating a Report Task
Describe the report task options. You might want to open the console and show a demonstration as you are explaining the concept.
References
Schedule a set of reports
A report task specifies:
The volumes and folders to report on
Which reports to generate
What parameters to use
How often to generate the reports
Which file formats to save the reports in 29

30. Generating On-Demand Reports
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Generating On-Demand Reports
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Use the Generate Reports Now action to open Storage Reports Task Properties and select desired reports
Point out that when you generate reports on demand, the reports are saved in the reports repository, but no report task is created for later use. You optionally can view the reports immediately when they are complete.
If you choose to open the reports immediately, you must wait while the reports are generated. Processing time varies, depending on the types of reports and the scope of the data.
Demonstrate how to generate a report on demand.
References
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31. Lab: Configuring and Managing Storage Technologies
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Lab: Configuring and Managing Storage Technologies
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Module 12: Configuring and Managing Storage Technologies
Exercise 1: Installing the FSRM Role Service
Exercise 2: Configuring Storage Quotas
Exercise 3: Configuring File Screening
Exercise 4: Generating Storage Reports
Lab objectives:
Install the FSRM role service
Configure FSRM storage quotas
Configure FSRM file screening
Generate storage reports using FSRM
Scenario:
The Windows Infrastructure Services (WIS) Technology Specialist has been tasked with configuring storage on a server to will comply with corporate standards. The WIS wants to create the storage with minimal long-term management by utilizing File Screening and Quota Management.
Exercise 1: Installing the FSRM Server Role
Based upon a provided scenario, students will install the FSRM server role.
Exercise 2: Configuring Storage Quotas
Based upon a provided scenario, students will configure storage quotas.
Exercise 3: Configuring File Screening
Based upon a provided scenario, students will configure file screening.
Exercise 4: Generating Storage Reports
Based upon a provided scenario, students will generate storage reports.
Inputs:
Virtual machines
Scenario
Outputs:
FSRM is configured to apply storage quotas and file screening.
Logon information
Virtual machine
NYC-DC1, NYC-SVR1
User name
Administrator
Password
Pa$$w0rd
Estimated time: 60 minutes 31

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Lab Review
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Why did compressing the Users folder result in a quota usage size reduction? How is this different from NTFS?
What are some other notification methods that you can implement when configuring quotas and file screening?
Question: Why did compressing the Users folder result in a quota usage size reduction? How is this different from NTFS?
Answer: The quota usage for FSRM is calculated based on the amount of disk space that the files is actually using. NTFS calculates quotas based on the normal size of the file, even if the files is compressed.
Question: What are some other notification methods that you can implement when configuring quotas and file screening?
Answer: , command prompt, and reports. 32

33. Module Review and Takeaways
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Module Review and Takeaways
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Review Questions
Tools
Review Questions and Answers
Question: What is the difference between hard and soft quotas?
Answer: A hard quota enforces the configured quota and does not allow the user to exceed it. A soft quota allows the user to exceed the quota and follows its configured notification routine.
Question: When a common set of file types need to be blocked, what should you create to block them in the most efficient manner?
Answer: You should create file groups where you can specify a common set of files to be filtered when the group is selected in a File Screening policy.
Question: If you want to apply a quota to all subfolders in a folder, including folders that will be created in the future, what option must you configure in the quota policy?
Answer: The auto quota option must be enabled. This will cause the quota to be applied to folders when they are created.
Tools
The following table describes the tools that you can use to configure FSRM:
Tool
Description
Dirquota.exe
Creates and manages quotas and quota templates.
FileScrn.exe
Creates and manages file screens, file screening exceptions, and file groups.
StorRept.exe
Configure report parameters and generates storage reports on demand. You also can create report tasks, and then use Schtasks.exe to schedule the tasks.
Fsutil
Configure NTFS Quotas, and create files to test quota behavior. 33