Securing Corporate Shared Drive folders

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Hello. We have a shared drive in our company where all critical business
data is written to. It totals about 350GB currently with a planned scale to
2.5 TB over the next three years. Currently, about 300 GB of this is data in
the form of drawings, PDF's and office data like .doc, .xls, .ppt files.

We recently decided to deploy a Document Management Solution in-house to
manage our data. Before doing so, we would like to take the next 3-4 months
to organize the data. When I arrived here, there were 130 folders off the
root of the main share. I locked the share down and remove or collapse
folders until we were down to 48 folders on the root. STILL TOO MANY.

Now, with the impending investment in a DMS, I have the reason needed to
force further reductions, but I need to place security on the folders and it
is a HUGE task since there are thousands of folders on the drive and we have
cross-departmental access requirements.

Can someone tell me the best way to manage placing security on this shared
drive? I wanted to follow our Org chart in the layout, but even that presents
a problem with other departments needing access.
 
Mikeysos said:
Hello. We have a shared drive in our company where all critical business
data is written to. It totals about 350GB currently with a planned scale
to
2.5 TB over the next three years. Currently, about 300 GB of this is
data in the form of drawings, PDF's and office data like .doc, .xls, .ppt
files.

We recently decided to deploy a Document Management Solution in-house to
manage our data. Before doing so, we would like to take the next 3-4
months to organize the data. When I arrived here, there were 130 folders
off the root of the main share. I locked the share down and remove or
collapse folders until we were down to 48 folders on the root. STILL TOO
MANY.

Now, with the impending investment in a DMS, I have the reason needed to
force further reductions, but I need to place security on the folders and
it is a HUGE task since there are thousands of folders on the drive and
we have cross-departmental access requirements.

Can someone tell me the best way to manage placing security on this shared
drive? I wanted to follow our Org chart in the layout, but even that
presents a problem with other departments needing access.
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perhaps take a look at

Windows Server 2003 Access-based Enumeration

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/abe.mspx
http://tinyurl.com/9bvys
 
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