Temporarily block access to home folder

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82whiskey

I'm wondering if there is a way to temporally block access to a
user's home folder. We have a person who is going to be out for a
week and there will be a temp using her computer. For numerous reasons
it's going to be easier to have the temp log in as the original user
and I'll just add a separate temporary email profile for this person.

My problem is I want to block access to the original user's home
folder while the temp is using her computer. Can this be done?

Thanks
Brian
 
I'm wondering if there is a way to temporally block access to a user's
home folder.
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By default only the users has access to his Home Folder.

We have a person who is going to be out for a week and there will be a temp
using her computer

You can have several different users accessing to the same computer without
accessing to eachother home folders

For numerous reasons it's going to be easier to have the temp log in as the
original user and I'll just add a separate temporary email profile for this
person

In my my opinion you should crate a temporary user and give him access
permissions to the other users mailbox (or send on behalf or send as), or
forward messages from the other users mailbox to the tempuser.

Check:
"Send as" and "Send on behalf" permissions in Exchange 2000 Server and in
Exchange Server 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;en-us;327000&spid=2520&sid=439
Granting Users Full Access to a Mailbox Other Than Their Own
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...5bb-8792-4bac-82aa-429fb6ecd8d9.mspx?mfr=true
 
Creating a new profile and giving mailbox access is not always the
solution, as some specific software that the user might need, needs to
be installed in that profile. You do not wish to spen 4 hours doing
that for a 5 day temp.

Main question is: is the userfolder on that local machine, or is My
Documents mapped to a shared folder on a file server? The last one
would be the easiest one: deny the original user access to that folder,
so the temp that logs on to that account cannot access that folder. For
extra security you can also remove the redirection of that folder.

If the folder is on the local machine (I would strongly advice against
it as you will not be able to setup a reliable backup mechanism for
that data), you can try denying access to that folder for the user,
however, it might be easier to move the data to a temp folder and deny
access to the temp folder for the temp user and let the temp user store
data in the (now empty) original user folder.

Cheers,
Rick
 
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