Troubleshooting Profile Quota Manager (259826)

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256986 Description of the Microsoft Windows Registry

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It can be difficult to troubleshoot problems with the Profile Quota Manager tool (Proquota.exe). However, you can use the checked version of Proquota.exe with a registry change to create a log file in the root folder of drive C that is useful in debugging problems with Proquota.exe. Proquota.exe is invoked by the Limit Profile Size policy.

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To enable the log file:

Rename the Proquota.exe file in the %SystemRoot%\System32 folder to Proquota.old or some other name.
Copy the checked version of the Proquota.exe file to the %SystemRoot%\System32 folder on the client computer that you want to debug. The checked version of the Proquota.exe file must match the version of the operating system being used.
Start Registry Editor (Regedt32) and locate the following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon
Create a new value named ProquotaDebugLevel as a REG_DWORD value. Assign data value 10002 in hexadecimal.
Restart the computer.

Log information is recorded in the root folder of drive C in the Proquota.log file. You can view the contents of the file with any text editor (such as Notepad).