3: Managing and Maintaining Access to Resources

Table of Contents

1. Working with Shared Folders
2. Offline Files
3. Troubleshooting Terminal Services and Remote Desktop Connections
4. Windows Server 2003 File Systems
   1. Converting from FAT or FAT32 to NTFS
   2. NTFS Disk Quotas
   3. NTFS Data Compression
   4. NTFS Data Encryption
   5. Encrypting a File or Folder
   6. Copying and Moving Encrypted Files
   7. Shadow Copies of Shared Folders
   8. Setting Up Shadow Copies
   9. Accessing Shadow Copies
5. Configuring File System Permissions

Encrypting a File or Folder

To encrypt a file or folder from the GUI, follow these steps:

1. Open Windows Explorer or My Computer.

2. Right-click the file or folder that you'd like to encrypt or unencrypt and select Properties.

3. On the General tab, click the Advanced button.

4. From the Advanced Attributes dialog box, mark (or clear) the Encrypt Contents to Secure Data check box to encrypt (or unencrypt) the file or folder that you selected. Click OK to close the Advanced Attributes dialog box and then click OK for the properties sheet to apply this setting. (When you encrypt a folder, you are prompted to select between applying this setting to the folder only and applying it to the folder, subfolders, and files.)

5. To share access to an encrypted file, click the Details button from the Advanced Attributes dialog box. You cannot share access to encrypted folders.

6. From the Encryption Details dialog box, click the Add button to add more users' EFS certificates to the encrypted file to share access with those users.

7. From the Select User dialog box, click the user whose EFS certificate you want to add for shared access to the encrypted file and click OK. You see only certificates for users who have encrypted a folder or file previously.

8. Click OK for the Encryption Details dialog box.

9. Finally, click OK for the Advanced Attributes dialog box and then click OK for the Properties window.

Next: Copying and Moving Encrypted Files