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As part of the migration away from legacy shares and infrastructure, IT Services has made several important changes to network drive access standards and procedures.
IT Services will no longer provide does not recommend granting access to any subfolder or other folder not at the root level (W:\), except by special request. Folder owners must demonstrate should consider doing this only if there is a security or privacy need, in consultation with IT Services.
Different types of permissions (e.g. read-only) are no longer available on network folders. If someone if granted access, they have full access.
All requests must be approved by the owner of the folder or a designate before IT Services grants access.
Any new root (W:\) folders must be approved by the IT Services or IT Infrastructure Manager.
Information on current access will be provided to folder owners only.
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