2003 server - Tuesday, March 4, 2008 5:16 - 0 Comments

Find all encrypted files

How to find all the EFS encrypted files on a machine.

You can use the EFSINFO tool to find all encrypted files on a volume. This tool is found in the Windows Server 2003 Support Tools on your product CD. To use this tool to find encyrpted files, run the following from a command prompt:
efsinfo /s:c: | find “”: Encrypted””

Why would you want to do this? Well for example, if you have a server used for a workgroup and you decide to promote it to a domain controller, you need to remove all encrypted files from it first otherwise they won’t be accessible afterwards.

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