InIT4theMoney
IS-IT--Management
We run a Small Business Server 2000 - based system with a mix of Windows XP / 2000 / 98 PCs and various copies of Office XP Pro / 2000 Pro and even 1 copy of 97 Pro.
All our users work within a single company folder tree on our SBS2000 server and all need access to all the documents within it. Users need to be able to create docs at will and also to be able to modify and edit them. To facilitate this, the entire tree has the ‘Everyone’ permission set to ‘Full Control’. Unfortunately, however (due mostly to carelessness) files and folders keep getting accidentally deleted from the server by the users. Whilst we can normally restore from backup it’s only a matter of time before someone loses something really important.
What we want to achieve is to remove is the ability of any user to delete either files or folders but to leave them with the ability to create and edit files and folders as required. However, if a user's 'delete' permissions for a folder or tree are removed, this has the side effect that Microsoft's software cannot delete the various temporary files it creates as it opens a doc. The effect of this ranges from an inability to save the doc to problems with file sharing or even complete crashes of client PCs. And the volume of undeleted temporary files accumulates at a frightening rate
Is there any way of taking away user 'delete' permissions whilst still allowing the software to still delete its temporary files? Or any way of changing the location of the temporary files Word etc writes on opening a file?
Thanks
Ian W
All our users work within a single company folder tree on our SBS2000 server and all need access to all the documents within it. Users need to be able to create docs at will and also to be able to modify and edit them. To facilitate this, the entire tree has the ‘Everyone’ permission set to ‘Full Control’. Unfortunately, however (due mostly to carelessness) files and folders keep getting accidentally deleted from the server by the users. Whilst we can normally restore from backup it’s only a matter of time before someone loses something really important.
What we want to achieve is to remove is the ability of any user to delete either files or folders but to leave them with the ability to create and edit files and folders as required. However, if a user's 'delete' permissions for a folder or tree are removed, this has the side effect that Microsoft's software cannot delete the various temporary files it creates as it opens a doc. The effect of this ranges from an inability to save the doc to problems with file sharing or even complete crashes of client PCs. And the volume of undeleted temporary files accumulates at a frightening rate
Is there any way of taking away user 'delete' permissions whilst still allowing the software to still delete its temporary files? Or any way of changing the location of the temporary files Word etc writes on opening a file?
Thanks
Ian W
