Shared Folder Structure
Hi,
My company runs a file server (windows 2003 R2) which is many years old, and contains a shared drive which holds a large number of folders and documents. Everyone has full access to this shared drive, and over the years it has become very disorganised. Sometimes folders and documents are accidentally moved around and I have to waste time trying to locate things.
The company now has a new file server, and I am ready to start moving things over to it. Can anyone recommend the best way to organise it? I was thinking of creating a fix folder structure so that people don't have access to move things, but this wouldn't prevent documents being accidentally moved.
Is there a way to prevent folders that have been created by users being moved out of the folder they are created in? Or is there a different way around this altogether?
Also, can anyone recommend any software which can create easily readable reports out of the audit logs?
Thanks
Nick
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February 5, 2008 10:12 AM
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February 5, 2008 10:25 AM
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Hi Nick,
One option would be to organise the folders so that only people required to have write access actually has it.
As an example, you could have folders according to dept, such as Accounts, sales, etc.
Once these are created you could then change the security on each foler adding security groups to
give people write access, or possibly just read access. This would then limit any inadvertent deletes or moves to the people with Write access, but would allow other people to still see the files within the folders.
So, the Security Group 'Accounts', would give write access, the group 'Acounts Read Only' would obviously give read only access. then simply add the poeple who need access to the relevent groups.
This will also then make it easy to tell who has the relevent access.
Not sure if this is what you were looking for, but hope it helps.
Unfortunately I can't help with the reports part.
Neil
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