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# Permission Report

### What is a NTFS Permissions Report?

* See all **effective NTFS permissions owner** of a specific folder, as well as their specific permissions.
* Is it a direct assignment of the user or does the user inherits his assignment by a specific group and what group was the originating group.

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### How To Generate the NTFS Permissions Report

* First click on `Permissions Report` on the `Home Screen` to start the wizard.

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* Then select any folder from the `Folders View`.
* Btw, you can add UNC paths to the `Folders View` input box! No need to map them to a drive letter.

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* Click on `Start` to generate the **NTFS Permissions Report**.

### Configure the NTFS Permissions Report - User

* Our FolderSecurityViewer lets you configure the Permissions Report (Permissions View) to obtain the user information you want.
* You can select up to seven properties of an **Active Directory User Object**, which will be shown in the list of users / permissions owners.
* You can even customize the column headers.

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### Configure the NTFS Permissions Report - Permission Set

* There is no need to deal with the native Windows Access Control Entries (ACE).
* Our **NTFS permissions reporter** offers you the ability to make these names more meaningful.
* Configure your own permission set names. We ship a pre-configured list of translated items for you.

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### Compare Folders using the Differences View

* The Differences View provides an easy way to compare the current folder to all folders in the **lower hierarchy**.
* All folders with a different **NTFS permissions set** are listed.
* Click on the Tab seen on the bottom to show all differences.

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* You can maximize this tab by clicking the `Maximize`button.
* Clicking on the `Folder`icon of any entry will start a new scan.
* Further you can generate reports for each folder listed here and export them by clicking on the `Export` button in top left.

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### Exclusion of any Active Directory Security Groups

* Our **NTFS permissions reporter** allows you to exclude any **Active Directory Security Group** from the scan.
* Even all **Active Directory Built-In Groups** are pre-configured with their names and SID and these groups are already defined as excluded for your comfort.
* All excluded groups will be **skipped** while your environment is analyzed.
* Your **NTFS Permissions Report** is not mixed with the well-known rights owners like Administrators, or Server Operators.

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### Save a Permissions Report

* Any **Permissions Report** can be saved to either a local built-in database or a MS SQL Server.
* Click on the `Disk` symbol near the filter box to save the current report.

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### Rerun a Permissions Report

* Any **Permissions Report** can be rerun to see any changes you made on filesystem or in Active Directory
* Click on the `Arrows` symbol near the filter box to rerun the current report.

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* In case you made any changes to your Active Directory you can clear the FSV internal AD Cache and rerun the report then.
* Click right to the `Arrows` symbol to see a sub menu item and then select this by clicking it.

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### Load a Permissions Report

* You can view and load a previously saved Permissions Report by several ways.
* **Way 1:** On `Home Screen` click on **Permissions Report** to show all saved reports.

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* **Way 2:** If you are already in the `Permission Report` view, you’ll find `Saved Permissions Reports` on the left pane.
* Click this entry to see all saved reports.

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* **Way 3:** From `Folder Browser` you can select any entry to open the context menu.

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* Select `Show Saved Reports` from context menu to show any saved report of this specific folder.

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* **Way 4:** In **Permission Reports** view the results view gives you the tab `Saved Reports` at the bottom of the view.
* This will show you all saved reports of this specific folder.

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