Delete Permissions

[lbarron]

Hi,

We are wanting to set Deny permission on deleting files and folders in certain locations on our server. Unfortunately this seems to break applications like MS Word as it works on temporary files and the replaces deletes and replaces the original upon saving.

Does anyone know any way around this?

If this isn't possible what is the best way of monitoring file/folder deletions using windows server 2003? We could setup auditing on the folders but can we set alerts on the event log entries to send emails?

Thanks

Lee

 

[DrB0b]

Just out of curiosity, why are your users making changes to the server file and not making a copy to use locally? If you deny them just from deleting they could still copy and paste to the folder when done? I know I ran into someone running an Access file through the network share as opposed to making a local copy and ended up locking everyone out of the file permanently.

Im sure one of the better versed Server guys will have a more elaborate/correct answer which I would be interested to hear as well.

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[lbarron]

Hi,

We have multiple people sharing files and folders so it wouldn't be workable to have them all copying the files locally and then pasting them back again when updated.

Thanks

Lee

 

[technome]

Does anyone know any way around this?" Switch to Novell which has delete inhibit(grin), Windows OS presently do not have a way around this.

Have you used Diskeepers "Undelete", it solves many issues of file/directory deletions/unauthorized moves, revisions etc.
Great product.Keeps multiple revisions of office files, audits file deletions by owner/date.

http://www.diskeeper.com/business/undelete/server/default.aspx

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[lbarron]

Hi,

Thanks for that.

I'm an ex Novell user so I know about the differences!!!

I'll look into UnDelete but I am more looking for prevention rather than after the event recovery.

Thanks again.

Lee

 

[TechyMcSe2k]

I answered almost the same question here:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1651239

http://www.samtechconsulting.com

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[lbarron]

Thanks for all your replies.

We'll have to look at monitoring rather than prevention.

Thanks

Lee