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prevent deletion of a workbook in a shared network drive
My company saves 2010 excel workbooks in a shared network drive. The problem is that everyone has access to them so sometimes they are mistakenly deleted. Is there a way to protect the 2010 excel workbooks so that they can not be deleted from the shared network drive?
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prevent deletion of a workbook in a shared network drive
My company saves 2010 excel workbooks in a shared network drive. The
problem is that everyone has access to them so sometimes they are mistakenly deleted. Is there a way to protect the 2010 excel workbooks so that they can not be deleted from the shared network drive? Permissions??? -- Garry Free usenet access at http://www.eternal-september.org Classic VB Users Regroup! comp.lang.basic.visual.misc microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion |
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prevent deletion of a workbook in a shared network drive
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My company saves 2010 excel workbooks in a shared network drive. The problem is that everyone has access to them so sometimes they are mistakenly deleted. Is there a way to protect the 2010 excel workbooks so that they can not be deleted from the shared network drive? Permissions??? I see the classic "security vs access" dichotomy here. :) I suspect that the OP's staff are needing write access to these files, which really means they aren't secure anyway - someone could delete all the data and save the file (for example). I suggest people keep their files secure on their computer, and copy them to the shared drive regularly. Then you have a 'which file is the current one and how current is it' problem of course. :) Or you could rely on regular and frequent backups of the whole disk ? My understanding of shared drives is that permissions aren't easily settable by file, and given write access, it's all kind of moot anyway. :) Security or access remains the question. I don't think there's been a good answer yet. :) :) |
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I agree in general, but I thought Active Directory availed more fine
control via Group Policy implementation. Another option is to implement a repository where access/permissions can be controlled in a more granular fashion. One example is PDM Works, where users must login/logout files. What they're allowed to do with the files can be controlled to a very fine-grained set of rules. -- Garry Free usenet access at http://www.eternal-september.org Classic VB Users Regroup! comp.lang.basic.visual.misc microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion |
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prevent deletion of a workbook in a shared network drive
In article , GS wrote:
I agree in general, but I thought Active Directory availed more fine control via Group Policy implementation. Another option is to implement a repository where access/permissions can be controlled in a more granular fashion. One example is PDM Works, where users must login/logout files. What they're allowed to do with the files can be controlled to a very fine-grained set of rules. ... so is that a product you have to buy form a non MS supplier ? Seems crazy to me that the MS system doesn't come with an easy way to set permissions ... but there you go. :) |
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prevent deletion of a workbook in a shared network drive
In article , GS wrote:
I agree in general, but I thought Active Directory availed more fine control via Group Policy implementation. Another option is to implement a repository where access/permissions can be controlled in a more granular fashion. One example is PDM Works, where users must login/logout files. What they're allowed to do with the files can be controlled to a very fine-grained set of rules. .. so is that a product you have to buy form a non MS supplier ? Seems crazy to me that the MS system doesn't come with an easy way to set permissions ... but there you go. :) PDM Works is 3rd party software that I use with my CAD apps for controlling who has what access/permissions to work with files in the repository. It utilizes NTFS permissions along with its own methodology of files/users management. Otherwise, I suspect ActiveDirectory+GroupPolicy would be able to govern what users can do to a finer degree. -- Garry Free usenet access at http://www.eternal-september.org Classic VB Users Regroup! comp.lang.basic.visual.misc microsoft.public.vb.general.discussion |
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