Problem:quotas disabled (greyed out) windows 2000

[personmann]

I just restored our file server from back up after upgrading disks. Everything went ok but on my first attempt to restore i got an error from Backup Exec about disk quotas, so the next time I did not select "restore quota info..." No problem.

Now when I try to enable quotas on that drive the quota tab is there, but greyed out. I looked at the relevant GPO and registry entries and disk quotas are enabled there. (not that I expected them to have changed)

So what the heck, any one have any ideas?
Thanks

 

[pgaliardo]

Just a guess here, but are the new disks formatted with NTFS?

 

[personmann]

Yes the disks are NTFS, and I am logging in as a domain administrator.

I found a script to activate quotas that supposedly works for server 2003 but it fails for windows 2000. I am really stuck here this doesnt seem to be a common problem.

 

[personmann]

Ok solved my own problem:

I changed a group policy for this server:
computer configuration/administrative templates/system/Group policy/Disk quota policy processing

enabled it, and selected "Process even if the Group Policy objects have not changed"

I think this just reapplied group policy for quotas automatically. So manually reapplying policy might have worked too.

Interestingly while quotas are now active, the quota tab page for the drive is still greyed out (can't be edited). I assume another policy in play, but I'm not sure yet.