2-2: Manage Folder Structure
Solution overview
Type of solution | Guidance |
Features and tools | NTFS volumes |
Solution summary | Maintain a wide and shallow folder structure, enabling the management of folder security using inheritance, with minimal levels of explicit ACLs. |
Benefits | Increased manageability and security |
Introduction
"Beauty is only skin deep," the saying goes. And life is beautiful when the scopes of management of security are only skin deep as well. Said another way, "Go wide, not deep."
Folders serve two purposes. A folder organizes content—files and subfolders—in a single container. And a folder, by maintaining an ACL with inheritable ACEs, establishes the scope of security for its contents.
Typically, file servers are characterized by multilevel ...
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