Is there any other way, short of the reg key, to disable NTFS compression on a Server 2003 box?
everything I can find says to use fsutil, but on 2003 fsutil does not contain the disablentfscompression command.
The only other way I've found, is by adding the reg key:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\
and adding the DWORD NtfsDisableCompression with a value of 1.
This does not appear to be working, as it appears files are still getting compressed. At least, as far as I can tell they are since when I run the command "compact /U /S /A /I" on a specific folder, every time it says it has decompressed at least one file.
Also, everywhere I read about the fsutil command to disable NTFS compression, is generally speaking about Vista, although they do mention Server 2003. Maybe it's in 2003 R2?
I need to be able to disable this, as some of our sites are using roaming profiles, and our current data encryption product is Credant. If a server-side roaming profile contains an NTFS-compressed file, Credant pukes and prevents the profile from loading.
And no, we cannot move away from roaming profiles and towards folder redirection at this time.
everything I can find says to use fsutil, but on 2003 fsutil does not contain the disablentfscompression command.
The only other way I've found, is by adding the reg key:
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem\
and adding the DWORD NtfsDisableCompression with a value of 1.
This does not appear to be working, as it appears files are still getting compressed. At least, as far as I can tell they are since when I run the command "compact /U /S /A /I" on a specific folder, every time it says it has decompressed at least one file.
Also, everywhere I read about the fsutil command to disable NTFS compression, is generally speaking about Vista, although they do mention Server 2003. Maybe it's in 2003 R2?
I need to be able to disable this, as some of our sites are using roaming profiles, and our current data encryption product is Credant. If a server-side roaming profile contains an NTFS-compressed file, Credant pukes and prevents the profile from loading.
And no, we cannot move away from roaming profiles and towards folder redirection at this time.