From the course: Windows Server 2012 Active Directory: File System and Storage

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Configuring file screening

Configuring file screening

One of the problems we've had with our file servers in the past is being able to monitor what types of files our users are storing in their shares, or in their network shares. Or, when we have a corporate policy that says you cannot store the following file type on the file server. The only way in the past to enforce that was to have your users sign a documentation that says they won't store the xyz type file on the file server. There was really no way to track whether or not they truly were or not without going out and manually checking the file servers or trusting that the users weren't doing what they weren't supposed to be doing. With the File Server Resource Manager one of the capabilities it now has and Microsoft introduced this in Server 2003 with the File Server Resource Manager was the ability to create what's called a file screen. What a file screen allows us to do is to either do a passive or an active file screen against content that's going into a folder. A passive file…

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