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MCT

Aug 30, 2018

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AIP Scanner & DFS-R Shares

Hello All, Just wondering if anyone knows if AIP Scanner is support to use with DFS-R Shares. As I understand it AIP Scanner adds metadata to the file attributes of each file. As they are att...

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Denis Mizetski
Aug 30, 2018
AIP adds custom property stored in the file. It's similar to you opening the file -> info -> properties -> advanced properties -> custom. If you do not have issue with this you should not have issues with AIP labels.

Denis Mizetski

Former Employee

Aug 30, 2018

AIP adds custom property stored in the file. It's similar to you opening the file -> info -> properties -> advanced properties -> custom. If you do not have issue with this you should not have issues with AIP labels.

jtracey93
MCT
Sep 03, 2018
Hi Denis,

So from this you can confirm that AIP scanner on a DFS-R file share is supported?

Thanks

Jack
- MarcHowe
  Copper Contributor
  Feb 28, 2019
  Hi,
  
  Was DFS-R confirmed as supported by AIP Scanner?
  
  I'm looking to implement this in our Organisation and we're using DFS shares. It seems like it "should" work but would prefer some official confirmation.
  
  Cheers, Marc
  - Denis Mizetski
    Former Employee
    Feb 28, 2019
    Yes it should, but it was not particularly tested with DFS. Scanner used regular CIFS protocol to get the file and write it back. If your DFS is a standard DFS that uses CIFS there is no reason not to support it,