How to use FolderSecurityViewer

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Permissions 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 the Home 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 Maximizebutton.
Clicking on the Foldericon 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 find Saved 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.