Dynamic Access Control
Dynamic Access Control in Windows Server 2012 is a great addition to file system security, something that has been a challenge for organizations for years. Dynamic Access Control provides central access policies, similar to what is shown in Figure 1.7, to files and folders across all Windows 2012 file servers in the enterprise. In the past, file permissions were done on a server-by-server (or file share-by-file share) basis. To find what rights a user had was nearly impossible because each server and each share had to be queried. File permissions were hard to set, hard to apply, and hard to manage.
Figure 1.7. Central access ...
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