EFS Encryption - how to fins encypted files?

[blastman]

hi all,

I got a situation where for some reason staff have starting encrypting files on the file servers.

this is an issue as I need to migrate the data to another volume and robocopy can't copy the encrypted files.

As we never intended users to do this we didn't create a recovery method so the only way to decrypt the files is to do it from the machine and logged on as the user that did it.

Once complete I'll set the file server to not allow efs encryption so it doesn't happen again...

I can run tools like cipher and efsinfo which report the status on EVERY file but the log files are 70mb + so it's a ball ache to sift though and even if i do it's doesn't tell me who i need to go and see to correct it.

my question, can anyone think of a way to compile a list of encrypted files and there locations with the user that encrypted it?

I don't think I'll get the last part, so I'm thinking some vbscript to loop though all files, echo out the encrypted ones as well as the author info from getfile. or something like that.

any thoughts?

thanks,

 

[JonJ678]

Robocopy can copy encrypted files just fine. It'll take longer, but they'll still copy. Leaving it running overnight for a few days would seem to be the easy, simple option.

 

[blastman]

Robocopy can copy encrypted files just fine. It'll take longer, but they'll still copy. Leaving it running overnight for a few days would seem to be the easy, simple option.

ok, well that's good news. thanks.

I still want to get rid of all the encrypted files before i change the reg key to stop allowing it.

and ideas?