Case Project 5 1: Creating a Shared Folder Structure

CSM TechPublishing hasasked you todevelop a file-sharing systemfor thecompany's departments,which includeManagement,Marketing,Sales,Development,and Editorial. The followingare somerequirements forthe file-sharingsolution:

Managementmust be ableto access allfiles in all theshares,unless statedotherwise, and must beable to create,delete, andchange files.

The Management Department must have a share that only it can access, and each memberof thedepartmentmust be ableto create,delete, andchange filesin the share.

Marketing and Sales should have one common folder that both departments' users haveaccess to.Members of bothdepartmentsshould beable to createnew files,have full control over files they create, and view and change files created by other group members.They shouldnot be able todelete filescreated byothermembers.

Sales shouldhave its ownshare thatonly SalesandManagementhave accessto. The Salesusers musthave fullcontrol overall files in theshare.

Development and Editorial have their own shares that only these departments and Management have access to. The users from these two departments must have full controlover all filesin theirdepartmentshares.

There should be a public share in which users in the Management Department can create,change, anddeletedocuments,and all otherusers havethe abilityonly to read thedocuments.

There should be a share available to management that no other users can see in a browselist. Itcontainsconfidentialdocumentsthat onlyselected users in theManagementDepartmenthave accessto.

Users mustbe able torestore filestheyaccidentallydelete orrestore anearlierversion of afile withouthaving to usea backupprogram.

Sales users must be able to access the files in the Sales share when they're traveling whether theyhave anInternetconnection ornot. WhenSales usersare back inthe office, anychanged filesshouldsynchronizewith theirmobiledevicesautomatically. All Salesusers have aWindows 8.1laptop ortabletcomputerrunningWindows RT8.1.

All usersexceptManagementusers shouldbe limited to10 GB ofspace on thevolume housingshares.Managementusers shouldbe limited to50 GB.

Given these requirements, perform the following tasks and answer the following questions:

1.What tool will you use to create theshares? Why?

2.What protocols and technologies (including file system) will be used to set up these sharedfolders?Explainthereasonforusingeachprotocol ortechnology.