Windows® Administration Resource Kit: Productivity Solutions for IT Professionals

3-3: Create, Secure, Manage, and Provision Server-Side User Data Stores

Solution overview

Type of solution	Guidance, scripts
Features and tools	NTFS folders, permissions, quotas, dirquota.exe, file screens, icacls.exe, xcacls.vbs
Solution summary	Create an efficient, secure, and managed namespace (folder hierarchy) for stores of user data and settings.
Benefits	Automate and provision storage management tasks to increase consistency and security.

Introduction

User data and settings (UDS) stores will be hosted, physically, on network servers as well as on the user's local disk. As you'll see in upcoming solutions, each class of data will be accessed from one primary store and most will be synchronized to the other. Deciding whether to address the user data ...