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Helpdesk Knowledge Base permissions

Updated: 22 May 2010 | 2 comments
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We're trying to setup the knowledge base with different libraries so only different AD groups can see the correct libraries.

Like the following:
\faculty and staff = Only faculty and staff AD group can view these
\students = only student AD groups can view these
\internal = only helpdesk workers can view
\guest = guests can view these.

I'm not exactly sure how to go about doing this. We really haven't used the helpdesk or knowledge base much.

Thanks

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JMoreno28's picture
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2009
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KB Permissions.

According to the "Altiris Helpdesk Solution 6.0 SP4 Product Guide" (page 171):

Each Library has a subfolder in the Libraries folder. Each library’s root article folder is the
Articles folder. This folder and any subfolder can have Microsoft NTFS permissions such
that users that should not see articles in a scope should not have read access to that
article. Administrators and the Helpdesk system need full control of a library’s folders
and subfolders. However, all other users are granted access to a Library’s articles by
having Read and Execute, List Folder Contents, and Read permissions. If a user does not
have permission to view an article, that article will not be listed in any search results by
that user.

The path to the Knowledge base can be found on the Altiris server:
C:\Program Files\Altiris\Knowledge Base\Libraries\Public\Articles

Hope this helps,
James

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2009
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Thanks, yes that does help.

Thanks, yes that does help.