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Remote (LAN) File screening and Management

Any one knows or uses a tool that you can remotely manage LAN PC Hard disk storages?

I need to do file screening on Local PC's (similar to FSRM) to prevent users saving some file formats on their local PC's.
EX: Allow Users to save .txt files but don't allow them saving .xls or .doc in My Documents and Desktop and etc for security related reasons?

Is there anything I can use that will help me manage this centrally than doing it on each PC?
Thanks in advance
17th May 2012

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Active Directory
Group Policy

You force your users to only use text files for everything? (You must be very popular with your users)
17th May 2012
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TweakUI or registry
For Windows XP there is this utility TweakUI that allows you to change the location of user folders, for example make c:\documents and settings\username\documents be h:\ (network drive) instead

You can also change this in any other OS via the registry

You can enforce this via group policy, or via the login script; run a .reg which will enforce the path every time, or move all files from the local mydocs location to the network home drive location.
17th May 2012
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Not Notepad files. It was just an example.
Basically i want to prevent users from Saving (copying) work files from file server to their local PC's
As long as i can restrict excel and word files and etc been copied like this i'm ok.

Using Win 2008 R2 for Server and Win 7 for local PC's
21st May 2012
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