EFS & Group Membership

[Guest]

Does anyone know of a 3rd party tool that uses EFS (or not) to set a folder /
volume so files can be encrypted by anyone of a group and anyone in that
group can decrypt? We want to avoid the complexity and hassel of giving
access to encrypted files on a user by user basis.

 

[Brian Komar]

This is not how EFS works. I recommend you read the whitepaper at
www.microsoft.com/pki
Brian

 

[Roger Abell [MVP]]

You are after a rights management system, not EFS, as what you
outline is not in the design scope of EFS. Rights management
on the other hand does intend to allow control over access to
material that is cryptographically protected based on types of
access allowed to what identities (without listing them one by one).