Introducing Windows Server 2008 - MCTS Guide to Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Configuration - page 7

1. Log on to your server as Administrator, if necessary.
2. Click Start , and then right-click Computer and click Explore .
3. Right-click the (C:) drive in the right pane and click Properties .
4. Click the General tab, if necessary. Verify that NTFS is listed for the file system. If the drive
isn't formatted as NTFS, ask your instructor which drive is formatted as NTFS on your
system and repeat from Step 3.
5. Click the Security tab (see Figure 1-1).

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Figure 1-1

The Security tab showing NTFS permissions

6. Click each item in the Group or user names list box, and view the permission settings for
each at the bottom.
7. Next, click the Quota tab. Quotas, a feature available only on NTFS-formatted disks, are
discussed more in Chapter 6.
8. Now click the Shadow Copies tab. This feature is yet another one that requires NTFS.
9. Last, click the General tab again. Note the two check boxes at the bottom for enabling indexing
and compression. NTFS volumes allow these features, which aren't available with FAT volumes.
10. Close the Properties dialog box.
11. Click the Documents icon under Favorite Links. Right-click the right pane, point to New ,
and click Text Document . Press Enter to accept the default filename New Text Document.
12. Right-click New Text Document and click Properties . Notice the two check boxes at the
bottom next to Attributes. They are common file attributes in both the FAT and NTFS file
systems. Click the Advanced button.
13. In the Advanced Attributes dialog box, notice four more check boxes for attributes. Only
the archiving attribute is available with FAT volumes. The other three, for file indexing, file
compression, and encryption, are available only with NTFS volumes.
14. Close all open windows.