Centralized "My Documents" for Backups

In part of an ongoing series about security, Dr Nitin Paranjape provides a tip for administrators who want to enforce centralized backups for a group of users. The basic idea is that you implement a group policy that prevents users from storing documents anywhere except in their "My Documents" folder, and then use the folder redirection facility of Windows 2003 to make each user's "My Documents" files reside on a centralized server. You can read the entire article online.

June 15, 2004June