After looking around online I found a great free utility that displays the info in an easy to explore graphical view. OverDisk scans the drive or folder (this took around 10 mins for a drive containing hundreds of home directories) and then you can save the data so it does not need to constantly rescan (unless you make changes to files).You can also have it only rescan a certain subfolder rather than the entire drive again.

It presents the information in a colour coded pie chart, allowing you to easily see which folders and files are using the most space.

You can click on the folder and the pie chart will change to reflect that folder or click the middle of graph to go up a level. Right clicking on a folder gives you an easy option to Open or Explore in Explorer.

Links:

• http://users.forthnet.gr/pat/efotinis/programs/overdisk.html

What ABE does is hide any file or folder that a user does not have access to. So for example the folder where you store all your users home drives, would usually appear jam packed with folders, most of which would return an Access Denied error. However, with ABE installed users would only see the folders they have access to, usually their own.

This is great especially if you are coming from a Novell background where this is the standard behaviour. It is also very useful in a school situation to keep the students from seeing things they shouldn’t.

To use ABE you need to download the management tools from Microsoft ABE Management Tools, then after installation either enable it on all shares or bring up properties and manually add it to shares.

A better description and walk through is available WindowsNetworking: Implementing Access-Based Enumeration in Windows Server 2003 R2

Links in this post:

• Windows Server 2003 Access-based Enumeration Overview
• Download Server 2003 Access-based Enumeration
• Implementing Access-Based Enumeration in Windows Server 2003 R2

You need to use the Security Template editor to create a template restricting rights to the C drive and deploy it with your group policies. The same procedure can be used to create a Security Template for use with Active Directory.

Instructions:

1. Open MMC from run
2. Add Remove Snap-in
3. Add Security Templates and Close
4. By default this only shows C:\Windows\security\templates. I prefer to store mine on the network so add a new network folder.
5. Right click (RC) Security Templates and add a New Template Search Path to network folder
6. You can then either copy an existing template using RC on template and Save As to network folder or start from scratch.
7. Expand chosen template then File System folder
8. RC either on File System object or in right hand pane and Add File
9. Click C: and OK and it should expand to %SystemDrive%
10. You can now adjust the permissions for the default groups.
11. When finished make sure to RC on the template and click Save. You can also set a description before saving.

I recommend going into Advanced and removing the two entires for Users allowing them to Create Folders and Create Files. This will prevent students and users creating files on C: drive.

You can create similar entires for other folders such as program files, etc. You can also allow students access to folder if required by certain programs or groups. Remember under Novell, because computers are not part of domain you can not use items you have added such as groups or individual users.

Adding to Group Policy in ConsoleOne

1. Open up the WS Policy Package, Windows XP tab and the Windows Group Policy item.
   If you are using Zen 7 continue, if using Zen 6.5 click Edit and jump to point 3 in AD below.
2. Click Import Policies
3. Click Import Security Settings File and browse to the security template you created and import.
4. Make sure Security Settings is ticked under Applied Settings Types
5. Click OK to save

Adding to Group Policy in Active Directory

1. Open Group Policy Management console
2. Browse to chosen GPO or create a new one, and go to Edit mode.
3. Expand Computer Config -> Windows Settings -> Security Settings
4. RC on Security Settings and choose Import Policy
5. Browse to the security template you created and Open. You may also wish to clear any existing settings in GPO.
6. Exit Edit mode

Multiple Security Templates can be created for different machines.
We allow staff to create files on C: (mainly to keep personal photos and music off network) so we have separate Security Template for Staff and Student PCs.

Great addon for Windows. Bring up the properties of a folder and it will calculate the size of all the subfolders.

Can be set to sort folders by size and decreasing allowing sysadmins to quickly identify large folders in user drives and shared locations. Can also export as a TXT file to give to users.

Made by the now defunct Space Dolphin website.

Folder Size Shell Extension Install