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.
How To Generate the NTFS Permissions Report
First click on
Permissions Report
on theHome Screen
to start the wizard.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Way 2: If you are already in the
Permission Report
view, you’ll findSaved Permissions Reports
on the left pane.Click this entry to see all saved reports.
Way 3: From
Folder Browser
you can select any entry to open the context menu.
Select
Show Saved Reports
from context menu to show any saved report of this specific folder.
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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