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Learning Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control

By : Jochen Nickel
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Learning Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control

By: Jochen Nickel

Overview of this book

Identifying and classifying information inside a company is one of the most important prerequisites for securing the sensitive information of various business units. Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control helps you not only to classify information, but it also gives you the opportunity and the functionality to provide a safe-net policy across your file servers, showing you some helpful ways of auditing and access denied assistance to improve usability. Understanding the architecture, the design, and implementing the solution, to troubleshooting will be covered in a practical and easy-to-read manner. This book is packed with project-based examples with plenty of information about the architecture, functionality, and extensions of Dynamic Access Control to help you excel in real-life projects. The book guides you through all the stages of a successful implementation of Dynamic Access Control. Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control will teach you everything you need to know to create your own projects, and is an essential resource for reviewing or extending already existing implementations. The book initially takes you through the task of understanding all of the functionality and extensions with ideas and overviews to help guide you in the decision process. The whole architecture will be explained in the main building blocks of Dynamic Access control. You will have a strong foundation and understanding of the claims model and Kerberos. Classifying information, the hardest part of the prerequisites to fulfil, is also covered in depth. You will also spend time understanding conditional expressions, and the method used to deploy them across your file server infrastructure. A special chapter is included for handling the data quality and the integration in other systems and strategies. Last, but not least, to get your solution up and running you will learn how to troubleshoot a Dynamic Access Control solution.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Manual Classification


To manually classify a file in general, use the following tasks:

  1. Open your Windows Explorer window and browse to the folder that contains the file you want to classify.

  2. Right-click on the file name and then click on Properties.

  3. Click on the Classification tab.

  4. From the list of resource properties, click on the resource property you want to configure.

  5. Click on the suggested value you want the resource property to use.

  6. Click on OK.

In the next few steps, we will configure the Finance Memo.docx example in our test lab:

  1. Create a file named Finance Memo.docx with some sample text and the inovit Confidential mark.

  2. Right-click on the Finance Memo.docx file and view the Classification tab to see the resource properties available for classification.

The manual classification is done by simply clicking on the Impact classification to set HBI as the defined one. This procedure can be used to classify a small amount of files. The better way is to think about the automatic classification...