1. Lesson 13: Configuring Shared Resources
MOAC : Configuring Windows 8.1

2. Overview Exam Objective 4.1: Configure shared resources
Configure shared folder permissions
Configure HomeGroup settings
Configure libraries
Configure shared printers
Set up and configure OneDrive
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3. Sharing Files and Folders
Lesson 13: Configuring Shared Resources
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4. Understanding Folder Sharing in Windows 8.1
Windows 8.1 provides three basic methods for sharing the files and folders on the computer: any folder sharing, public folder sharing, and homegroup sharing.
For home users, homegroup networking is simple to set up and use.
For small business networkers, Public folder sharing is often the easiest method, one that users can easily maintain for themselves on a day-to-day basis.
For larger networks, Windows domain networks, or any network with more elaborate security requirements, any folder sharing is preferable.
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5. Windows 8.1 Sharing Features
Any folder sharing
Public folder sharing
Homegroup sharing
Shares files from any location
Places all shared files in a single location
Shares files from their default library locations
Enables you to set different sharing permissions for individual network users
Uses the same sharing permissions for all network users
Enables you to set the same sharing permissions for all network users or set different sharing permissions for individual users
Access can be limited to network users with a user account and password on your computer
Access can be limited to network users with a user account and password on your computer
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6. Windows 8.1 Sharing Features
Any folder sharing
Public folder sharing
Homegroup sharing
Individual users can be granted read-only or read/write access to the share
Can be configured as a read-only share or a read/write share
Individual users can be granted read-only or read/write access to the share
Shares files from their original locations
Requires you to copy or move files to be shared to the Public folder
Shares files from their original locations
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7. Sharing with Homegroups
Using homegroups, Windows 8.1 users can share their documents, printers, pictures, music, and videos with other Windows 8.1 users connected to the same home network.
A home network has a single read-only homegroup by default, with the individual users selecting what they want to share.
Homegroups are relatively limited, when compared to any folder sharing, because you can only share the contents of the libraries in the user’s profile.
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8. Using Libraries
When you open a File Explorer window, the left pane retains the Favorites and Network folders from earlier versions, as well as the This PC folder, which was formerly called Computer in previous Windows versions. Missing, however, in Windows 8.1 is the Libraries folder.
The libraries still exist in Windows 8.1; they just don't appear in the File Explorer interface by default.
Libraries enable users to aggregate files in multiple locations – and even on multiple computers – into a single folder that makes them appear as though they are all on a local drive.
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9. Using Libraries
A File Explorer window
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10. Adding Library Locations
The Documents Library Locations dialog box
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11. Creating a Homegroup
When a Windows 8.1 computer uses the Private network location, the computer attempts to detect an existing homegroup on the network.
If the system does not detect a homegroup, the Network and Sharing Center control panel contains a link providing access to the Create a Homegroup Wizard.
When a Windows 8.1 computer using the Private network location does detect a homegroup on the network, the Network and Sharing Center control panel appears with an Available to Join link.
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12. The Unidentified Networks Properties sheet
Creating a Homegroup
The Unidentified Networks Properties sheet
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13. The HomeGroup control panel, with no HomeGroup installed
Creating a Homegroup
The HomeGroup control panel, with no HomeGroup installed
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14. The Share with other homegroup members page
Creating a Homegroup
The Share with other homegroup members page
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15. The Use this password to add other computers to your homegroup page
Creating a Homegroup
The Use this password to add other computers to your homegroup page
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16. Creating a Homegroup
The HomeGroup control panel, showing the homegroup found on the network
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17. The Type the homegroup password page
Joining a Homegroup
The Type the homegroup password page
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18. Working with Homegroups
Once you have joined a computer to a homegroup, the shared libraries of the other computers on the network appear in File Explorer in the Homegroup container.
To modify the default homegroup sharing configuration, you can select one of your shared libraries in File Explorer and click Share in the toolbar.
Using the controls that appear in the ribbon, you can change other homegroup users’ access to the library from Read to Read/Write.
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19. Working with Homegroups
Homegroup shares in File Explorer
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20. Sharing the Public Folder
Sharing files and folders using the Public folder is the simplest way to give your clients file sharing capability.
All you have to do to activate Public folder sharing in Windows 8.1 is enable Network Discovery and select the Turn on sharing so anyone with network access can read and write files in the Public folders option on the Advanced sharing settings control panel.
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21. Sharing the Public Folder
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22. Sharing a Folder
With any folder sharing, you have full control over what material on the computer is shared, which users are permitted to access the shared material, and what degree of access each user is granted.
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23. The Sharing tab of a folder’s Properties sheet
Share a Folder
The Sharing tab of a folder’s Properties sheet
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24. The Advanced Sharing dialog box
Share a Folder
The Advanced Sharing dialog box
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25. Managing Share Permissions
For network users to access shares on a Windows 8.1 computer with password- protected sharing enabled:
They must have user accounts on the sharing computer (or in a domain to which both computers are joined).
You must grant them the appropriate permissions.
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26. The Permissions dialog box for a shared folder
Set Share Permissions
The Permissions dialog box for a shared folder
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27. Share Permissions and Their Functions
Allows or denies security principals the ability to:
Read
Display folder names, file names, file data, and attributes
Execute program files
Access other folders within the shared folder
Change
Create folders
Add files to folders
Change data in files
Append data to files
Change file attributes
Delete folders and files
Perform all actions permitted by the Read permission
Full Control
Change file permissions
Take ownership of files
Perform all tasks allowed by the Change permission
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28. Combining Share and NTFS Permissions
Share permissions provide only three levels of access, compared to the far more complex system of NTFS permissions. Generally speaking, network administrators prefer to use either NTFS or share permissions, but not both.
Share permissions provide limited protection, but this might be sufficient on some small networks.
On networks already possessing a well-planned system of NTFS permissions, share permissions are not really necessary.
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29. Lesson 13: Configuring Shared Resources
Using OneDrive
Lesson 13: Configuring Shared Resources
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30. OneDrive
OneDrive, formerly called SkyDrive, is Microsoft’s personal, cloud-based storage service. Every user who applies for a Microsoft account receives free cloud storage.
Users can access their OneDrive storage space is several ways, including the following:
Through the web
Through the OneDrive desktop app
Through a desktop application
• Through the web – By browsing to and logging on with your Microsoft account, you can access your storage space directly. Using this interface, you can manage your files, perform uploads and downloads, and even open your files in web-based versions of Microsoft Office applications.
• Through the SkyDrive desktop app – When you install the SkyDrive desktop app, it creates a folder in your user profile on the local drive, and installs a program that synchronizes the contents of that folder with your SkyDrive space in the cloud. You simply drop files into your SkyDrive folder and the app automatically uploads them to your storage space. You can install the app on multiple computers, so that they all maintain the latest versions of your files. To manage your storage and control the app, right-click the SkyDrive icon in the notification area, which provides access to the dialog box.
• Through a desktop application – Many software developers are incorporating SkyDrive into the storage options for their applications. For example, Microsoft Office 2013 enables you to access files directly from your SkyDrive space, as shown in Figure 14-22, and save revised versions there. When an application is designed to access SkyDrive directly, the synchronization app is not needed.
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31. Using OneDrive
The OneDrive website
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32. Lesson 13: Configuring Shared Resources
Working with Printers
Lesson 13: Configuring Shared Resources
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33. Understanding the Windows Print Architecture
Printing in Microsoft Windows typically involves the following components:
Print device – A print device is the actual hardware that produces hard copy documents on paper or other print media.
Printer – In Windows parlance, a printer is the software interface through which a computer communicates with a print device.
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34. Understanding the Windows Print Architecture (cont.)
Printing in Microsoft Windows typically involves the following components:
Print server – A print server is a computer (or standalone device) that receives print jobs from clients and sends them to print devices that are either locally attached or connected to the network.
Printer driver – A printer driver is a device driver that converts the print jobs generated by applications into an appropriate string of commands for a specific print device.
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35. Understanding Windows Printing
Before you can print documents in Windows, you must install at least one printer. To install a printer in Windows, you must do the following:
Select a specific manufacturer and model of print device.
Specify the port (or other interface) the computer will use to access the print device.
Supply a printer driver specifically created for that print device.
When you print a document in an application, you select the printer that will be the destination for the print job.
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36. Understanding Windows Printing
The Windows print architecture
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37. Understanding Windows Printing
A Windows printer’s Properties dialog box
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38. Windows Printing Flexibility
The flexibility of the Windows print architecture manifests itself in how the roles of these components can be performed by a single computer, or distributed around a network.
When you connect a print device to a standalone Windows 8.1 computer, for example, the computer supplies the printer, printer driver, and print server functions. However, you can also connect the computer to a local area network (LAN) and share the printer with other users.
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39. Adding a Local Printer
The most common configuration for home, small business, or workgroup users is to connect a print device directly to a computer running Windows 8.1 or another version of Windows, and then add a printer and printer driver.
This enables local users to print their own jobs, and it also makes it possible to share the printer with other network users.
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40. The Devices and Printers control panel
Add a Local Printer
The Devices and Printers control panel
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41. The Find a printer by other options page
Add a Local Printer
The Find a printer by other options page
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42. The Choose a printer port page
Add a Local Printer
The Choose a printer port page
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43. The Install the printer driver page
Add a Local Printer
The Install the printer driver page
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44. Sharing a Printer
To share a printer on a Windows 8.1 computer, you must enable the appropriate settings in the Network and Sharing Center, just as you have to do to share files and folders. To share printers, the following Sharing and Discovery settings must be turned on:
Network Discovery
File and Printer Sharing
In addition, if the Password Protected Sharing setting is turned on, users must be logged on and have appropriate permissions to use the printer.
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45. The Sharing tab of a printer’s Properties sheet
Share a Printer
The Sharing tab of a printer’s Properties sheet
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46. Configuring Printer Security
Printer permissions are much simpler than NTFS permissions; they basically dictate whether users are allowed to merely use the printer, manage documents submitted to the printer, or manage the properties of the printer itself.
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47. Assign Printer Permissions
The Security tab of a printer’s Properties sheet
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48. Basic Printer Permissions
Capabilities
Special Permissions
Default Assignments
Print
Connect to a printer
Print documents
Pause, resume, restart, and cancel the user’s own documents
Read Permissions
Assigned to the Everyone special identity
Manage This Printer
Cancel all documents
Share a printer
Change printer properties
Delete a printer
Change printer permissions
Manage Printers
Change Permissions
Take Ownership
Assigned to the Administrators group
Manage Documents
Pause, resume, restart, and cancel all users’ documents
Control job settings for all documents
Manage Documents
Assigned to the Creator Owner special identity
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49. Accessing a Shared Printer
In addition to using the Add Printer wizard, there are several other ways to access shared network printers. If the computer is a member of a homegroup, then all of the printers shared by other members of the same homegroup automatically appear in the Devices and Printers control panel
When the computer hosting the printer is a member of an Active Directory Domain Services domain, the ability to locate shared printers is enhanced even further.
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50. Accessing a Shared Printer
Viewing printers in Windows Explorer
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51. Lesson Summary
Windows 8.1 provides three basic methods for sharing the files and folders on the computer: any folder sharing, public folder sharing, and homegroup sharing.
Homegroup networking is a Windows 8.1 feature that enables computers configured to use the Home network location to share the contents of their respective libraries among themselves.
Libraries enable users to aggregate files in multiple locations – and even on multiple computers – into a single folder that makes them appear as though they are all on a local drive.
Sharing files and folders using the Public folder is the simplest way to give your clients file sharing capability
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52. Lesson Summary
Windows 8.1 has several sets of permissions, which operate independently of each other, including NTFS permissions, share permissions, registry permissions, and Active Directory permissions.
Share permissions provide rudimentary access control for all of the files on a network share.
OneDrive is Microsoft’s personal, cloud-based storage service. Every user who applies for a Microsoft account receives seven gigabytes of free cloud storage.
The printing architecture in Windows is modular, consisting of the print device, a printer, a print server, and a printer driver.
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53. Lesson Summary
A local printer is one that supports a print device directly attached to the computer or attached to the network. A network printer connects to a shared printer hosted by another computer.
To install a printer, you run the Add Printer wizard and specify the printer driver and port to use.
The print queue window enables you to monitor printers for potential signs of trouble.
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