文件分类基础架构和服务器2008 R2

还记得WinFS - Windows未来存储吗?曾几何时，这是一个计划中的对Windows文件系统的彻底增强，将成为Vista的一部分。事实证明，它太过雄心勃勃，太过以微软为中心，太过缓慢，以至于看不到曙光;但基本想法是合理的。NTFS是一个很好的文件系统，但是它不允许管理员和用户充分详细地描述文件并具有足够的灵活性。随着服务器上文件的数量和类型不断增加，我们需要更好的工具来管理这些文件。文件管理由各种各样的任务组成。你必须备份你的文件，并不时地恢复它们。你必须保护你的文件。您必须根据过期标准，在一个或多个阶段对它们进行归档。 You’d like to do some reporting so you have a handle on what types and sizes of files are where. You need to perform capacity planning. Of course we’ve been doing these things all along, but it sure would be easier if we could extend the file properties architecture to be customizable to our needs. The mere physical location of a file in a folder is not enough for us to make many of the file management decisions we need to make. In fact, depending on your network, the folder location may be next to irrelevant! In Windows Server 2008 R2, Microsoft has extended the File Server Resource Manager console with a new node titled “Classification Management.” This is part of what the company calls FCI, File Classification Infrastructure. (It’s an “infrastructure” because you can interact with it via the FSRM console or via PowerShell.) The idea behind FCI is to let organizations define file properties that will be useful to them, build rules to apply these new custom properties, and perform file management operations that take the new file properties into account. The first step is to figure out what new classification properties you might like to create. (Remember that these are operating-system level properties, so they have the virtue of not depending on any particular file type or application.) You’ll create these properties in the FSRM console using the “Classification Properties” node under “Classification Management.” The allowable properties have a decent variety of data types, including string, list (multi-string), ordered list, Boolean, date/time, numeric, and multiple choice. Once you’ve created the properties you need, such as “confidential” or “never expire” or “trade secret” or “relating to the Widget Project” or whatever, then you can create rules to apply those classification properties to existing files – a subject we’ll look at tomorrow!