Controlling quantity is important to minimize running costs, controlling content is vital to prevent legal costs. Don’t spend time and money storing illegal or recreational files.

Using the file block functionality of Northern Storage Suite (found in NSS: Quota Server) give you the possibility to:
- Ensure investments are only made for professional data.
- Remove illegal file-types from your storage devices.

Below you will find a comprehensive list of file blocking features within Northern Storage Suite:

Content control policies allow you to prohibit unwanted file types:

• File type blocking - do not allow users to store specific file types [available for Windows, Windows Cluster, EMC Celerra, NetApp NAS and SAN]
• File type group blocking - mass-prohibit music, movie or program files [available for Windows, Windows Cluster, EMC Celerra, NetApp NAS and SAN]
• File Allow - specify a list of file types that can be saved into a path and deny all other content [available for Windows, Windows Cluster, EMC Celerra, NetApp NAS and SAN]
• File level quotas - allow jpgs to be saved into a path but set a hard limit on the data footprint of these files [available for Windows, Windows Cluster and SAN]
• Efficient content screening - real-time scanning at file extension level [available for Windows, Windows Cluster, EMC Celerra, NetApp NAS and SAN], binary-level scanning performed in a scheduled report