akalinowski
IS-IT--Management
I have a good feeling i just screwed myself, but here goes anyways...
had a user who brought in thier own laptop to work off of, i didnt join it to the domain until after he requested to get outlook working on his local computer w/ exchange (he was using OWA before) i disjoin him from his current domain not thinking anything of it and join him to our domain and make everything work, his documents were mapped to D:\my docs (a folder on a 2nd partition) so i didnt think much of it.
then 2 hours later i get an angry call saying that all his files are missing, i look and he had a bunch of files in the folder D:\my docs but couldnt find the specific one's he was looking for, under further investigation, it appears that those files were stored as offline files, i think nothing of it, i go to restore them and alas they are all EFS encrypted.
my question is what can i do to save those files, they are not backed up and he hasnt synced with a server in month's so the files arent on any server.
akalinowski
MCSE 2000, A+, N+, LCP, CNE
had a user who brought in thier own laptop to work off of, i didnt join it to the domain until after he requested to get outlook working on his local computer w/ exchange (he was using OWA before) i disjoin him from his current domain not thinking anything of it and join him to our domain and make everything work, his documents were mapped to D:\my docs (a folder on a 2nd partition) so i didnt think much of it.
then 2 hours later i get an angry call saying that all his files are missing, i look and he had a bunch of files in the folder D:\my docs but couldnt find the specific one's he was looking for, under further investigation, it appears that those files were stored as offline files, i think nothing of it, i go to restore them and alas they are all EFS encrypted.
my question is what can i do to save those files, they are not backed up and he hasnt synced with a server in month's so the files arent on any server.
akalinowski
MCSE 2000, A+, N+, LCP, CNE
