Encryped Files

[clayton74]

Hello All

We have a problem that you may be able to help with. We have users who have been given new laptops, we also had a script that ran and copies the user local profile. Unfortunatley some users had encrypted there docs and the script failed.

Is there anyway apart from been the user or a domain administrator that we can copy the profile from the old laptop to a network share (home drive). As we get permission denied with our limited admin accounts. Any help would be grateful

 

[jamesbird]

2 ways I can think of:
1. Put the laptop drive as a slave in a machine and change the owership of the files.
2. You may be able to make a ghost image and use ghost walker to see the file/ folders.
But if it works all you'll see is the encrypted content.
James

 

[bcastner]

Encryption has nothing to do with permissions to do the file copy.

Ownership does.

Change the ownership of the original profiles:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421

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[bcastner]

I take the above back. I believe that for an encyrpted file if it is moved to a different volume the result is an automatic un-encryption of the file.

If you are not the EFS owner or agent, you will be denied the ability to copy the files across to a new volume.




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