Windows File System Troubleshooting

© Mike Halsey and Andrew Bettany 2015

Andrew Bettany and Mike HalseyWindows File System Troubleshooting10.1007/978-1-4842-1016-1_3

3. Permissions, Ownership, and Auditing

Mike Halsey¹  and Andrew Bettany²

(1)

Microsoft MVP, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK

(2)

Microsoft MVP, York, North Yorkshire, UK

 

Windows offers lots of very powerful features to prevent unauthorized access to your corporate data. The majority of these are available only when you use the New Technology File System (NTFS) that we reviewed in Chapter 2. In this chapter, we will delve further into the specifics of NTFS and focus on the features that allow you to secure your files by applying various permissions to accept or restrict access. We will provide you guidance on how to re-take ...