Chapter 11. Managing Files

Many types of documents, including financial spreadsheets, business plans, and sales presentations, must be shared on your network while remaining protected from unauthorized access. Windows Server 2008 R2 offers a suite of technologies to provide both availability and security for documents.

To control access, use NTFS file permissions and Encrypting File System (EFS). To provide redundancy, create a Distributed File System (DFS) namespace and use replication to copy files between multiple servers. You can use quotas to ensure that no single user consumes more than his or her share of disk space (which might prevent other users from saving files). Shadow copies and backups allow you to quickly recover from data corruption ...

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