Group policy win 2008 w/ XP SP3 workstations - how to prevent users from deleting files from Drive C:?

dont give them local admin rights or power user rights - just domain user rights- they shouldnt be able to delete it then

Jan MA CCNA

Thx for the swift reply.
I need those users to be local admin for other reasons, is there a more elegant way?

I thought of using NTFS permissions.

Hi, you can use two way to achive this what you want.
1. You can use by Group policy, simple described here http://mcpmag.com/articles/2008/10/13/file-permissions-thru-group-policy.aspx
2. You can use startup script (which I prefer) with cacls or icacls command described here http://ss64.com/nt/cacls.html

You could try hiding the C: drive through Group policy

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/231289

but that's the problem with making users Local Admin.

NTFS permission is the best option for this scenario.

As a different angle, can you explicitly grant the users the permissions for which they currently need local admin rights? You say they need it "for other reasons", but what other reasons are those? It may be cleaner to make the users regular domain users, and then explicitly give them the rights they need so you don't have to grant them local admin, which has any number of other implications.

Hi experts

Any other ideas ?