Is it possible to disable AD users from saving a text file as a .bat format via GPO? If yes, how is it doable?
Thanks in advance
Since you didn't specific where you wanted to prevent the saving of files, I will give a general answer.
You can users prevent from saving files with a specific extension (file screening) on network shares using something called File Server Resource Manager.
You can prevent users from executing or running files having specific extensions through a GPO.
One cannot prevent a user from saving a file with a specific extension to their own workstation.
So, depending on the Microsoft technology you are using, and where the file is being saved, the overall answer is it depends.
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Sorry if I didn't express myself precisely in the title, I'll try to explain what i meant to say here.
My application uses a lot of small files like DB files, xml files, fonts, etc. There is folder and file presence check when application starts, but I would like to make sure that user can not accidentally change or delete some important file from disk.
Only thing that comes to mind is archiving files in few archives by usage frequency, changing archive extension to something unfamiliar and hiding those archives.
But compressing and uncompressing those files all the time through application doesn't seem like efficient solution.
Is there some standard procedure for keeping those important files from tampering?
Only thing that comes to mind is archiving files in few archives by usage frequency, changing archive extension to something unfamiliar and hiding those archives
That is security through obscurity, which is not a recommended practice.
Instead, use the file security mechanisms built-in to your operating system. Allow appropriate file access only to a specific group/role or user, and ensure your application runs in that group/role or as that user.
I'm working on a project and I need to dynamically check what is in onhe of my folder. The idea is that I have the id of a quest, and there is a folder name after that id. My code needs to check if this folder exist AND if there is something in it. After that, it show all the picture inside that folder. The goal is that I will just have to add picture in a folder to have them appear in my game.
I tried to find a way to check the content of my folder, but everyone say that I need flash.filesystem, BUT it means that I need to use AIR. AIR does NOT work in FireFox or any other browser.
Here is the website that make me understood that:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/Photos_Graphics/Web_Graphics/Macromedia_Flash/Q_26118847.html
How can I explore the content of my folders then?
There is absolutely no way to explore the local file system without user interaction in Flash. If you want to do it, you must make an AIR application, which is not browser-based. This is a security feature that is imposed by each browser (you can't do it in JS either) and implemented identically by Adobe.
You can use FileReference to allow a user to select file(s) for Flash to have access to or save a file, but that is the most interaction with the filesystem that will be possible without opening AIR (which is also not limitless. Even with AIR, you won't have full access to the file system and will be locked out of certain directories and prevented from doing certain things)
If the folders are on your server you'll need to rely on a server side script to do the job and pass the result to your app.
If you mean folders on client side computer it's not gonna be possible for security reason.
A partner who cannot support a real-time web service interface must SFTP CSV files to my linux environment.
The file is zipped and encrypted. The sftp server is a different virtual server than the one that will process the CSV data into my application's database.
I don't need help with the technical steps (bash script, etc) but I'm looking for file management conventions that assist with the following requirements:
Good auditabilty
Non-destructive
Recoverable
Basically I'm trying to figure out when it makes sense to make copies of the file, when to rename it to indicate some process step has been completed to a file, etc. (e.g. Do I keep the zip files or do I delete them once unzipped?)
There is going to be personal preference in the response, but I'm looking for that; to learn from someone who has more experience working with this type of interface. This seems better than me inventing something myself.
If the files are encrytped upon the network and within the files settings, then it cannot be successfully transmitted across unless the file is parsed within another file. You could try to make the sftp server foward the file onto a seperate machine,but this would only cause more issues because of the encryption type based on the files.
we can assume the user is working with Ms Word files.
After the user chooses a file, the software needs to store it.
That is easy, with Delphi blob and MsSql image.
Now lets say the user wants to edit the file,
could you suggest a simple solution, that will open the file in Ms Word, allow edit, and then save the changes to the image?
It would be better if old version could be kept, like svn.
Any component that you could suggest?
Copy the blob out to a temp file:
C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Temp\2011112_1115112.doc
or
wherever windows wants you to store temp files for this user.
Launch WinWord on that file,
waiting on the program to finish.
When they're done, copy it back.
For multi-user situations, you'll need exclusive access. WinWord usually figures that out when you're sharing files. But in this case, you'll have to simulate it, perhaps with a field on the table row to reserve/release the document for read/write access.
In order to prevent file storage problems like when two people upload a file that might have the same file name...
Is it better to get each user a separate folder to prevent issues or is better to have all files in one folder for all users but change the file-name to keep them unique?
It depends on what you are trying to achieve.
What kind of service do you want to provide? A general file storage service? Then use different folders, since the number of files in a directory may be limited (depending on the file system) and can have major influence on the performance.
Do you provide an upload area for a simple blog? Use a single directory and change the file names.
Sorry, an absolute answer can only be given if you provide more information.