How do I recover encrypted files

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One of my users have encrypt all of his data (1 year ago) that was stored in
the folder on one of our 2003 Servers, now for some reason he can not access
his files (access denied) I try to take over the ownership of the folder
with my administrator account to no avail, please help.



How do I recover the files, I need to have an access to it, what is the best
or quickest method, are they any articles in knowledge base that will give
me step by step direction,



Thanks
 
Use efsinfo support tool to find out what users and Recovery Agents [if any]
show as having access to the EFS files and the corresponding certificate
thumbprints. If you use a RA then that may be the best approach to recover
the files. The EFS files would either need to be backed up and restored to
the computer that contains the RA certificate/private key or the RA would
need to logon to the computer where the EFS files are located and import his
RA certificate/private key from a password protected .pfx file into his user
account to decrypt the files. The links below may be helpful. If there is
no EFS private key available from user/RA then those EFS files will not be
recoverable. The user's/RA EFS private key lives in the user's profile, can
be exported for backup, and may be restored if you use PKI that archives
user's private keys for EFS certificates. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;223316
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/support/dataprot.mspx
 
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