Re: Block saving of certain file types in share

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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 12:53:21 -0600

There is no built in filter for such. What you could do is to warn everyone
and maybe even make it part of written user policy that the user signs and
then after a fair warning that includes a final date for compliance use a
script to delete those file from the folder. Of course instruct users to
move files they want out of the folder first. The script could be a
Scheduled Task using the delete command that deletes files by extensions on
a regular basis. This is not a perfect solution as you will need to include
extensions of common files that the users are copying to the folder and may
not include all of them but beyond that I would consider it a matter for
user discipline. Checking the owner of the file could let you know who
copied it to the share though ownership can change if another user modifies
a file.. --- Steve

"Brent" <brent.andersonRemoveThis@brun.k12.va.us> wrote in message
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> Is there a way to stop the saving of certain file types to a share on a
> server? For example we have a share on a server that users save files for
> a specific application. However we have some users that have decided to
> save anything they want to the share such as video files which we don't
> want them to do.
>

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