Display delete confirmation dialog

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Hey all,

Had an interesting request today. User accidentally deleted some files
that were being hosted on a share from a Windows 2003 server. He
stated the "Display delete confirmation dialog" setting was
unchecked... A requirement I received in result was to lock the
setting down so users cannot display the dialog and accidentely delete
an entire share of data. We do have backups etc to mitigate, but to
reduce time spent by the administrators they want to lock this
feature... I glanced over group policies and didn't see anything...
Our infrastructure is Windows 2003 domain and all XP clients.

Thanks and cheers,
Ken
 
Re: Display delete confirmation dialog

Hello kenp21@gmail.com,

Check out this policy:
User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Explorer, In right
panel, find "Display confirmation dialog box when deleting files"

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
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> Hey all,
>
> Had an interesting request today. User accidentally deleted some files
> that were being hosted on a share from a Windows 2003 server. He
> stated the "Display delete confirmation dialog" setting was
> unchecked... A requirement I received in result was to lock the
> setting down so users cannot display the dialog and accidentely delete
> an entire share of data. We do have backups etc to mitigate, but to
> reduce time spent by the administrators they want to lock this
> feature... I glanced over group policies and didn't see anything...
> Our infrastructure is Windows 2003 domain and all XP clients.
>
> Thanks and cheers,
> Ken
 
RE: Display delete confirmation dialog

Hi Ken,

You might also look into enabling Shadow Copy so that users can be
self-service when restoring things that they accidentally deleted on the
network share.
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Ryan Hanisco
MCSE, MCTS: SQL 2005, Project+
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Chicago, IL

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"kenp21@gmail.com" wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Had an interesting request today. User accidentally deleted some files
> that were being hosted on a share from a Windows 2003 server. He
> stated the "Display delete confirmation dialog" setting was
> unchecked... A requirement I received in result was to lock the
> setting down so users cannot display the dialog and accidentally delete
> an entire share of data. We do have backups etc to mitigate, but to
> reduce time spent by the administrators they want to lock this
> feature... I glanced over group policies and didn't see anything...
> Our infrastructure is Windows 2003 domain and all XP clients.
>
> Thanks and cheers,
> Ken
>
>
 
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