Every once in a while Microsoft does something that causes admins all over to sigh FINALLY, Access Based Enumeration (ABE) is one such feature. New to Windows Server 2003 is the ability to install a small add-on that delivers what Novell and *Nix admins have had forever; the ability to hide files or folders that the user has no rights to access. ...

There are two forms of file system permissions, share and NTFS. Windows 2000/XP sets the share permissions to Everyone - Full Control. Windows XP SP1 and Windows 2003 changed that to Everyone - Read Only. That is ok, as you can lock down access rights with NTFS Permissions, however it is a best practice to remove the Everyone group, and add the ...