Microsoft KB Archive/228812

= Disk Quota Events Not Written to the Event Log Immediately =

Article ID: 228812

Article Last Modified on 2/27/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server

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This article was previously published under Q228812



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256986 Description of the Microsoft Windows Registry



SUMMARY
By default, Disk Quota notifications are not written to the event log immediately. Instead, they are written to the event log every hour.



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Disk Quota events are written to the event log (if enabled) using the logging option in Quota properties for a drive using the NTFS file system. Disk Quota logging is configured using the following check boxes in the drive's properties:
 * Log event when a user exceeds their quota limit
 * Log event when a user exceeds their warning level

However, events are not logged immediately when a user exceeds one of these thresholds. Instead, logging occurs asynchronously sometime after the NTFS driver scans the quota information for quota entries over the limits or warning levels.

Modifying Disk Quota Notification Time
You can modify the default one-hour Disk Quota notification time by modifying the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem

Value: NtfsQuotaNotifyRate (REG_DWORD)

Default: One hour (specified in seconds). Value not present by default.

Keywords: kbenv kbinfo KB228812

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