CIS 170F: Windows 7 Administration

Week 5

Managing File Systems
File and Folder Permissions
Permission Strategy Considerations

  • Poorly designed permission strategy can quickly lead to problems.
  • Some of the best practices when designing a permission strategy for files and folders are:
    • Folder structure should be designed so that permissions can easily flow down
    • Folder structure should have a specific permission strategy before users are allowed to store files in it
    • Specific permissions can be applied to a file or folder for a given user or group of users
    • Exceptions to permissions can be made
    • All folder permissions strategies should be tested

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