I NEED HELP PROTECTING SERVER FOLDERS

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We have a server where we keep a lot of important folders, some of which are
updated every day with contracts, etc. One day one of the employees
accidentally deleted or somehow got rid of a very important folder. (we did
have it backed up but we lost a lot of updates) We need to learn a way to
protect this from happening. The folders in our server need to be unmovable.
Does anyone know how to do thiss?

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

We have a server where we keep a lot of important folders, some of
which are updated every day with contracts, etc. One day one of the
employees accidentally deleted or somehow got rid of a very important
folder. (we did have it backed up but we lost a lot of updates) We
need to learn a way to protect this from happening. The folders in
our server need to be unmovable. Does anyone know how to do thiss?

It's not necessarily a simple matter. Which folders? How about subfolders?
Should users have permissions to create subfolders themselves? Etc. You
could make yourself crazy trying to set up (and manage) granular permissions
on your folders to try and effect this, and you'd probably find you'd missed
something down the line (or restricted things so much that your users
couldn't access the data at all).

Instead, I'd take a look at the folder/permissions structure. Set up your
folders in a logical fashion so that only the relevant people have
permissions to them - meaning, break out your subfolders into separate
shares if need be, and set up AD groups to access them (I'm presuming you're
using AD). Also, if you're running W2003 or higher on the server, Volume
Shadow Services should be running so you can restore from snapshots (and
hence lose less data).

 

[Pavel A.]

We have a server where we keep a lot of important folders, some of which are
updated every day with contracts, etc. One day one of the employees
accidentally deleted or somehow got rid of a very important folder. (we did
have it backed up but we lost a lot of updates) We need to learn a way to
protect this from happening. The folders in our server need to be unmovable.
Does anyone know how to do thiss?

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--PA