Re: Folder EncryptionMar 12 2005 12:30PM Dr. S. A. Vetha Manickam (avmanickam yahoo com)
If you use ADS as domain login, it is possible to enforce the EFS on the folder
encryption on all other group of machines.
with regards
avm
--- Miroslaw Slawek Chorazy <mchorazy (at) depaul (dot) edu [email concealed]> wrote:
> >Is there a way to use a Group Policy to force folder encryption for a
> >>specific folder on a group of PCs (XP) ?
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> A local or network folder?
>
> If local then there i am not aware of simple setting for this but you
> could write a script which is a machine startup script and enforces the
> local directory encryption. You could make that script execute on
> specific computers which are filtered via either: WMI, OU or Security
> Group during computer startup.
> But if your users are local admins then i think they can un-encrypt.
> Anything below local Admin does not allow them to overwite.
>
> If network folder than make that folder part of your Offline files
> hierarchy and there is a GPO setting to force encryption.
> Again, if they are local admins then they can overwrite.
>
> slawek
>
> >>> <KL_SecurityFocus (at) spamex (dot) com [email concealed]> 3/4/2005 10:00 >>>
> Is there a way to use a Group Policy to force folder encryption for a
> specific folder on a group of PCs (XP) ?
> - Kurt
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encryption on all other group of machines.
with regards
avm
--- Miroslaw Slawek Chorazy <mchorazy (at) depaul (dot) edu [email concealed]> wrote:
> >Is there a way to use a Group Policy to force folder encryption for a
> >>specific folder on a group of PCs (XP) ?
>
> A local or network folder?
>
> If local then there i am not aware of simple setting for this but you
> could write a script which is a machine startup script and enforces the
> local directory encryption. You could make that script execute on
> specific computers which are filtered via either: WMI, OU or Security
> Group during computer startup.
> But if your users are local admins then i think they can un-encrypt.
> Anything below local Admin does not allow them to overwite.
>
> If network folder than make that folder part of your Offline files
> hierarchy and there is a GPO setting to force encryption.
> Again, if they are local admins then they can overwrite.
>
> slawek
>
> >>> <KL_SecurityFocus (at) spamex (dot) com [email concealed]> 3/4/2005 10:00 >>>
> Is there a way to use a Group Policy to force folder encryption for a
> specific folder on a group of PCs (XP) ?
> - Kurt
>
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