Re: EFS & Group Membership



This is not how EFS works. I recommend you read the whitepaper at www.microsoft.com/pki
Brian
"John - PDX" <JohnPDX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:F514D646-5B4C-48E5-B36F-4E0C97CB0962@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Does anyone know of a 3rd party tool that uses EFS (or not) to set a folder /
volume so files can be encrypted by anyone of a group and anyone in that
group can decrypt? We want to avoid the complexity and hassel of giving
access to encrypted files on a user by user basis.
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Thanks,
John

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