Change NTFS Permissions for MyDocs company wide
A client wants us to change it so that no one has write access to the root of the MyDocs folder, but can write to subfolders (for Outlook etc) . People are saving their documents there instead of on to the server. We know how to do this manually, however we'd really rather not run around to 70 computers to do this. Is there any way to do this through GP or otherwise?
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To answer your question yes, you can configure NTFS permissions via GPO. However, I think you are going about this all wrong. Removing access to Documents may cause some headache you don't want to deal with later on.
Have you looked at:
-placing a shortcut in the documents folder to the appropriate drive
-user education, let them know the risk of saving files locally
-folder redirection
Have you looked at:
-placing a shortcut in the documents folder to the appropriate drive
-user education, let them know the risk of saving files locally
-folder redirection
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Two things:
1) I have noticed a "bug" in Word/Excel. Even if I default the Save File Location to the U: drive, if you create a new document and click Save As or Save (forget which one) it defaults to the MyDocs
2) If we do Folder redirection, how would that affect MyDocs\Outlook Files ? Would everyone's OST be on the server? (Not wanted)
1) I have noticed a "bug" in Word/Excel. Even if I default the Save File Location to the U: drive, if you create a new document and click Save As or Save (forget which one) it defaults to the MyDocs
2) If we do Folder redirection, how would that affect MyDocs\Outlook Files ? Would everyone's OST be on the server? (Not wanted)
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