EFS Recovery Agent

From: Lee (lee_at_nowehere.com)
Date: 02/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:49:50 -0000

Hi,

Hopefully someone can advise.

I am trying to setup EFS in my domain, I would like to change the default
EFS recovery agent from Administrator to a user. We do not currenlty have
a CA, however, from what I have read, this is not necessarily required.

Could someone please advise whether a CA is required, and if not, point me
in the direction of some help on how to do this.

TIA

Lee

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