Quota Templates

The following is a list of quota related commands that I have created and are available for download from this site.

gl-createquotatemplate

Creating a quota template can be done using the central administration tool by going to “Central Administration > Application Management > Quota Templates”. This command will create a quota template in the same way as is done via the central administration tool.

C:\>stsadm -help gl-createquotatemplate

stsadm -o gl-createquotatemplate

Creates a new quota template

Parameters:
        -name <quota>
        [-storagemaxlevel <maximum>]
        [-storagewarninglevel <warning>]

Here’s an example of how to create a template:

stsadm –o gl-createquotatemplate –name "My Sites" –storagemaxlevel 50 -storagewarninglevel 40

Once the template is created you can assign it to a site using STSADM’s setproperty command:

stsadm –o setproperty –propertyname defaultquotatemplate –propertyvalue "My Sites" –url "http://mysites/"

The main code that handles the creation of the quota template can be seen below.

 1SPFarm farm = SPFarm.Local;
 2SPWebService webService = farm.Services.GetValue("");
 3 
 4SPQuotaTemplateCollection quotaColl = webService.QuotaTemplates;
 5 
 6if (quotaColl[name] != null)
 7{
 8 output = "The template specified already exists.";
 9 return 0;
10}
11SPQuotaTemplate newTemplate = new SPQuotaTemplate();
12 
13newTemplate.Name = name;
14newTemplate.StorageMaximumLevel = storagemaxlevel;
15newTemplate.StorageWarningLevel = storagewarninglevel;
16 
17quotaColl.Add(newTemplate);

The code is essentially just grabbing an SPWebService class which returns the SPQuotaTemplateCollection. We then use that collection to add new items to the collection – the same is true for editing but instead of adding a new item we are retrieving and modifying an existing item.

gl-editquotatemplate

Editing a quota template can be done using the central administration tool by going to “Central Administration > Application Management > Quota Templates”. This command will edit a quota template in the same way as is done via the central administration tool.

C:\>stsadm -help gl-editquotatemplate

stsadm -o gl-editquotatemplate

Edits an existing quota template

Parameters:
        -name <quota name>
        [-storagemaxlevel <maximum storage level in megabytes - set to zero to clear>]
        [-storagewarninglevel <warning level in megabytes - set to zero to clear>]

Here’s an example of how to edit a template:

stsadm –o gl-editquotatemplate –name "My Sites" –storagemaxlevel 50 -storagewarninglevel 40