EFS and ease of use with a laptop
Hi,
I'm planning on deploying EFS to laptops in our domain. I plan on
encrypting "my documents" and have been testing that configuration myself.
One annoying feature is that I create a document on my laptop and now I want
to share it by moving it to the network. Unfortunately, when I drag it to
the correct spot on the server, it is also encrypted on the server.
I don't want to disable encryption on the server, but I would like to
disable it in certain folders. Or have the copy operation at least ask the
user what they want to do. I plan to expand the use of EFS on the server
instead of what the users do today, which is password protect individual
files in Word and Excel.
"Educating the user" sounds great, but I know if I keep forgetting to
decrypt the file once I put it on the server, that our standard users will
really be at a loss.
Any ideas?
Buzz about Gather
I see there's a bit of buzz about gather.com over at
ie7 search. It got added to that
OpenSearch site that lets you add searches to IE7 and firefox. Gather.com appears to be similar to blog technology where users publish blog entries, er, I mean articles. Then other users comment on them. Maybe the extra soup is that you can add tags to these posts.
Hub added OpenSearch: adding search providers to IE7 and Firefox
Entry for July 30, 2006
It's easy to add searches to IE7 using
OpenSearch: add searches. I just added the Yahooligans search. Yahooligans is a site run by Yahoo.com that's just for kids.
Entry for July 22, 2006
IE7 and Firefox 2 come with a new search toolbar which allows you to select the search provider, ie., Google, MSN, Yahoo, etc. The toolbar allows you to find more providers, but you really want to start adding vertical search engines, customizing your searches, add different languages, then check OpenSearch: adding search to IE7 and Firefox. It's a lot more powerful than the standard list and allows the end user to add search providers or plugins to the new browsers.
