Checklist: Configuring Encrypting File System in a server cluster

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Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

Checklist: Configuring Encrypting File System in a server cluster

Using Encrypting File System (EFS) on a server cluster requires several tasks to be performed before EFS files can be safely encrypted and decrypted on the server cluster.

  Step Reference
 

Create a server cluster

Checklist: Planning and creating a server cluster
 

Configure the computer accounts for the server cluster to be trusted for delegation

Important

  • All cluster node computer accounts, as well as the virtual server computer account, must be trusted for delegation.

Allow a computer to be trusted for delegation
 

Configure users of this cluster for roaming user profiles to ensure the private keys of the users are available to each node of the server cluster

Create a roaming user profile
 

Create a file share for storage of encrypted files

Create a cluster-managed file share
 

Configure the cluster to support Kerberos authentication

Enable Kerberos authentication for virtual servers
 

Create or copy files on the cluster server file share

  
 

Encrypt files on the cluster server file share

Encrypt a file or folder