Every week, it seems that another company becomes the victim of a coordinated ransomware attack. While several companies offer various products and services to detect and contain ransomware, Microsoft's File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) can be leveraged as an additional tool to prevent the encryption of files on your network shares. In this guide, I will show you how to prevent ransomware attacks on network shares with FSRM.

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If you want to synchronize files between several computers and mobile devices, the well-known cloud services from Microsoft or Google are the obvious choices. For local networks, Synology Drive is an efficient solution that runs directly on the popular NAS from this manufacturer.

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In this comprehensive icacls guide, you'll learn how to list, set, grant, remove, and deny permissions, as well as everything you need to know about Microsoft's command line tool for managing file and folder permissions.

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DFS Replication, short for Distributed File System Replication (DFSR), is a Windows Server role service that allows you to replicate folders to other servers and network sites. In addition, it is a "multi-master" technology, meaning any server in the configuration can receive file updates, which are replicated to the replication partners.

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