Windows Catches up with Netware – in one respect anyway

A long, long time ago I used to support Netware environments. When we moved people over to Windows file servers one of the biggest complaints from people was that they could now see all sorts of directories that they didn’t have access to and it made their world all cluttered.

Back in those heady days we just told them to get a life. Well now the option is available (just) for Windows file servers. It’s called Windows Server 2003 Access-based Enumeration. Now isn’t that nice. Not sure why it should become available now, or whether anyone still cares, but I’m passing on the information anyway.

From my perspective it’s something that would make users lives look cleaner and hence make file navigation quicker. This should then make them more productive which has to be a good thing. And as file navigation is something people do lots of the potential productivity gain is high.