Re: Vista/7 Shadow Copy

[Roger Safian <r-safian () NORTHWESTERN EDU>]

At 02:25 PM 5/21/2010, Flynn, Gary put fingers to keyboard and wrote:
> What do you think of disabling Shadow Copy on computers not having full disk encryption to prevent inadvertent storage 
> of sensitive data? Our support folks indicated they don’t use the feature for maintenance or troubleshooting. Some of 
> our Windows folks are worried that it might be used as part of the backup process or to recover files from servers 
> (???). And it it nice to have around when pushing patches or changes that have higher risk of failure (e.g. Service 
> packs).

I think it makes sense to disable this regardless of the issue
of data.  Free up that space, and have your users rely on their
backups.  Besides, malware can hide there.



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