Apply Your Knowledge
For the 70-270 exam, you need to master a variety of file and folder management techniques. These include:Creating and removing shared foldersConfiguring share permissionsManaging files and folder hierarchiesConfiguring NTFS permissions and viewing effective permissionsSharing web foldersConfiguring compressionConfiguring offline foldersThe Step by Step exercises throughout the chapter assist you in mastering these skills. You can supplement these exercises by practicing how to install IIS. You should have the Windows XP installation CD available.
Exercises
5.1 Installing IIS
A simple web server, IIS offers any Windows XP Professional computer the capability to share an intranet website with other users. Because IIS is available for any computer and is targeted at intranet usage, administrators and engineers alike should understand how to install and configure the service.Estimated Time: 15 minutes.1. Click Start, Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs.2. Click Add/Remove Windows Components in the left pane.3. Scroll to locate and click to select Internet Information Services (IIS). Click Next.4. The Windows Components Wizard starts. If prompted, insert the Windows XP installation CD in your CD-ROM drive. If you copied the installation files to your hard drive previously, click the Browse button to locate the files. Click OK.5. When the Completing the Windows Components Wizard screen appears, click Finish.6. Restart your computer.
Review Questions
1.If you are granted the Write permission to a file but not the Read & Execute permission, can you see the file in a folder? Why would someone grant just the Write permission?2.How should you resolve a problem in which a person can read a file locally but cannot read the file across a network?3.Why would you install SSL for use with WebDAV?4.When should you apply NTFS permissions to individual user accounts rather than create groups?5.Why would moving a file to a different NTFS volume cause it to inherit NTFS permissions from the destination parent folder, when moving a file to a different folder within the same NTFS volume retains the NTFS permissions?
Exam Questions
1.You are the systems administrator for your company. You created a hierarchy of folders on your computer running Windows XP Professional, as shown in the exhibit. SUB2 contains a file named SUB2FILE and another subfolder named SUBSUB3, which contains a file named SUBSUB3FILE. You have applied the Full Control right to a user named Joe in TOP for this folder only.You have granted Joe the Read right for SUB2 and the Write right for SUB1. Which files will Joe be able to read, open, append data to, and save? (Choose all that apply.)

Answers to Review Questions
1.No, you should not be able to see a file if you were granted the Write permission but not the Read permission. This type of permission is given to people who may need to append data to a file that an application opens on their behalf. For more information, see the section "Assigning Permissions to Files and Folders."2.When a person has more permissions locally than the person has across the network, it points to a restrictive shared permission problem. You can look at the share permissions to discover which group membership is restricting the access to the file. For more information, see the section "Working with Share Permissions."3.SSL is an encrypting protocol for data that uses the HTTP protocol. WebDAV is the protocol used for sharing a web folder. SSL used in concert with WebDAV ensures that data retrieved from a web folder is secured as it traverses the network. When sharing a web folder across an unsecure network, you should always use SSL. For more information, see the section "Managing and Troubleshooting Web Server Resources."4.Never. Even if you have a single, one-off instance that you could never imagine occurring again in the future, you should still create a group, add the user to the group, and then apply permissions. There is always the possibility that another person will take over that first user's position or will supplement the work that the first user was doing and will need the same permissions. And it is much easier tracking down unnecessary permissions if you know that they will only ever be applied to groups and not individual users. For more information, see the section "Understanding NTFS Permissions."5The answer lies in the way that a move operation works rather than how permissions work. When you move a file from one folder to another on the same NTFS volume, it basically marks a new file location in the file entry of the NTFS table. Thus, when you move the file on the same NTFS volume, you don't change any information pertaining to the permissions. However, when you move a file from one NTFS volume to another, you end up removing the file entry from the originating NTFS volume, and creating a new file entry on the new NTFS volume. Because you lost the permission information on the originating volume, you end up inheriting permissions from the destination folder on the new volume. For more information, see the section "Calculating How Permissions Change When Moving or Copying a File."
Answers to Exam Questions
1.A. Joe should be able to read, open, append data to, and save TOPFILE because he has been granted full control to the TOP folder. Answers B, C, and D are incorrect because you have selected This Folder Only option for the TOP folder, so the permissions do not flow down to subfolders. None of the subfolders include enough permissions by themselves for Joe to perform all the operations on the file. For more information, see the section "Understanding NTFS Permissions."2.B. Jack is likely still a member of TEAM2. Because users in TEAM1 are able to access the file, and because Jack has not been denied access to WORK individually, he must have a Deny permission overriding access to the file. Because the company policy is to grant rights only to groups, the most likely conflict is that Jack's user object was never removed from TEAM2. For more information, see the section "Understanding NTFS Permissions."3.D. As an administrator, you can take ownership of the file and grant Miranda the permission to access the file. Answer A is incorrect because you can help Miranda. Answer B is incorrect because it is generally considered a breach of security to add new Domain Administrators for accessing a file. Answer C is incorrect because as a local Administrator for the computer, Miranda would have access to sensitive documents aside from the presentation in question. For more information, see the section "Understanding NTFS Permissions."4.B. Jan probably removed rights to the %systemroot% folder for her user account, which has adverse effects. Answer A is incorrect because her user account is a domain account. Answer C is incorrect because adding her account to the local Administrators group would add permissions, rather than remove them. Answer D is incorrect because the My Documents folder is not critical to logging on. For more information, see the section "Securing the %systemroot% Folder and Subfolders."5.D. In this case, the explicitly applied right to Read & Execute the DATA file overrides all inherited permissions for the file. For more information, see the section "Handling Permission Inheritance."6.C. Because all permissions are negated when you copy a file to a FAT16 or FAT32 volume, with which a floppy disk would be formatted, all users would be given Full Control access to the file, including the COLLECTIONS group who had been previously denied access to the file when it was on the NTFS volume. For more information, see the section "Calculating How Permissions Change When Moving or Copying a File."7.C. The problem is apparently a share permission that is more restrictive than the NTFS permissions because the assistant can log on locally and use the files, but cannot make changes to them from across the network. This means that there is no need to make changes to NTFS permissions, so answers A and B are incorrect. It also means that the share permissions should be increased by allowing Full Control (your only option in this case) rather than denying Read, which is why answer D is incorrect. For more information, see the section "Working with Share Permissions."8.D. This is the only way to allow access to shares using Internet Explorer. For more information, see the section "Managing and Troubleshooting Access to Shared Folders."9.B. A move operation in the same volume only updates directory pointers and does not create a new file. For more information, see the section "Configuring, Managing, and Troubleshooting File Compression."10.A and D. You can configure the SHARE folder as a web folder and allow anonymous users to connect to it. You can also enable Simple File Sharing, which allows any user to connect to shared files using the Guest account. This is called ForceGuest. Answer B is incorrect because ICMP is not a file sharing protocol. Answer C is incorrect because Simple File Sharing does not require a user to connect with a user account. For more information, see the section "Controlling Access to Files and Folders by Using Permissions."11A and D. The version of IIS that can be installed on a Windows XP Professional computer can handle a maximum of 10 simultaneous connections. If more than this are required, use a member of the Windows 2000/2003 server families. For more information, see the section "Creating and Removing Shared Folders."12.C. This is the only answer that will give Fred sufficient permissions to save the file to the shared folder. Remember that a denial overrides everything as far as permissions are concerned. For more information, see the section "Assigning Permissions to Files and Folders."
Suggested Readings and Resources
The following are some recommended readings on the subject of Managing Files and Folders in Windows XP Professional:
1. Microsoft Official Curriculum course 2285: "Installing, Administering and Configuring Microsoft Windows XP Professional. Information available at http://www.microsoft.com/learning/syllabi/en-us/2285Afinal.mspx.2. WebsitesShared Folders at http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/file_srv_topnode.mspxHow to Cancel NTFS Conversion After Running CONVERT.EXE at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;130913How to Use Compressed (Zipped) Folders in Windows XP at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306531Use Access Control to Restrict Who Can Use Files at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/security/learnmore/accesscontrol.mspx