Re: Restoring Encrypted Files

From: x y (jamescagney90210@excite.com)
Date: 07/12/02 

From: "x y" <jamescagney90210@excite.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 22:32:13 -0400

Did you follow the instructions at www.microsoft.com/support to use the
domain administrator account as the EFS recovery agent? For workstations
joined to a domain, the domain administrator account is the EFS recovery
agent. I would guess this might work even though the workstation has
crashed, because I would guess the EFS recovery agent encryption key is not
stored on the local crashed PC but in Active Directory. If it works, let us
know.

"Kevin" <Kevin@computerabilities.com> wrote in message
news:e#SuBdRKCHA.2052@tkmsftngp08...
> I joined the same domain with this PC - but still could not change
> encryption attribute on these files. This is a NT 4.0 network. With NT
> Server 4.0 - if I did not export the recover key - will I be able to gain
> access to the encrypted files?
>
> --
> Kevin McGowan
> Computer Abilities
> Kevin@computerabilities.com
> 419-436-1185
> "Keith W. McCammon" <km@km.com> wrote in message
> news:esMXH0OKCHA.1364@tkmsftngp11...
> > If the new PC is joined to the same domain as the old PC, OR if you
> exported
> > a recovery key, you can recover the data. If neither of these
conditions
> > exist, say goodbye...
> >
> > --
> > Keith W. McCammon
> >
> >
> > "Kevin" <Kevin@computerabilities.com> wrote in message
> > news:150f001c228e5$154ee8f0$37ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA13...
> > > Running 2000 Pro - one workstation had several users. One
> > > user had encrypted files. This PC was damaged beyond
> > > repair. We purchased another Win 2000 Pro PC, restored
> > > all files from tape backup... but cannot change the
> > > encrypted attribute on this users files. How can we gain
> > > access to these files again?
> > >
> > > Thank you!
> >
> >
>
>

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