Permission Analyzer for Windows

User Reviews

• Great added value and good support

  DominicAllenDecember 8, 2015

  Pros

  We have been using version 1.6 for the last few years now and the tool is very helpful on our network. We have a lot of permissions setup for individual users rather than groups and Permissions Analyzer helps us identify exactly where the permissions are coming from and allows us to get more control over the access. We use version 2.0 to check permissions for a group of users at once, I haven't seen any tool that can do that. I have setup scheduled reports and I now receive an e-mail alert when permissions are found that match my filter. I must say it feels great to have some control over the NTFS permissions in our network. The overviews are very fast compared to other tools, because the overviews query a database instead of scanning the network. We have scheduled a nightly Windows task to run the tool in scan mode, which updates the database.

  Cons

  It doesn't offer much functionality to modify permissions on the file system. You can modify individual ACE's in the application which are applied on the file system, but there is no feature to apply bulk changes.

  Summary

  I think Permission Analyzer adds a great value in our network. We use it on a daily basis and besides the schedules reports we use it to check permissions when the business requires additional group memberships. I don't know how other organizations audit their NTFS permissions, but at least this tool gives us some form of control.

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• Excellent program, really useful!

  PietVermolenApril 7, 2009

  Pros

  * User friendly * Fast * Nice graphical user interface * Support filtering of access rights * Support for creating / customizing HTML reports

  Cons

  Nothing to tell so far.

  Summary

  This program offered exactly what we needed. Controlling all the permissions for each network user in a normal Windows environment is just impossible! This program really helps me out.

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• I'm not quite sure this is for all language operating system versions

  GezaGabrielJune 14, 2006

  Pros

  I liked the support answer within 24 hours and it's help. The easy registration process would make you happy, too, but there's no note that you'll need Internet access for activation (imagine people with so high security they wouldn't connect the computers - where the software is - to the Internet /~ the mail would be saved to a pendrive, etc./). Within 1-2 minutes 27GB datas were scanned (directories), it hink this is a very nice data!

  Cons

  There were problems with differenct language operating systems where you may think the program isn't working (huge list). It was better on English-based systems. There should be an option at settings to switch between date formats (think about regional settings), too. An offline help is needed to get a better view. The price isn't a good solution by my opinion, there should be some more packages. <p>This is an error message which isn't solved: <p>"Runt-time error '91': Object variable or With block variable not set".

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