NTFS Permissions Reporter BETA 3 Released

The third and final BETA version of my NTFS permissions reporting tool is now available to download. Read on for details of what’s new in this version and a release date for the first official version.

NTFS Permissions Reporter BETA 2 Released (with screenshots)

Anyone that tried to use the first BETA of my NTFS permissions reporting tool today will have realised that it expired today – well fear not, the second BETA is here!

NTFS Permissions Reporter BETA 1 Released

After several months of working away on it, I’m happy to say that you can now finally download the first BETA of my NTFS permissions reporting tool.

VB.NET Select Active Directory Container Dialog

For any .NET developers writing programs that require a user to select a container or OU from Active Directory, I’ve made an easy to use dialog window that will show the domain tree and let the user select a specific container.

NTFS Permissions Reporter – Filtering

I’ve been busy working away on my NTFS Permissions Reporter application and just wanted to show some screenshots of the filtering capabilities and explain why and when you would use them.

I’ve been awarded a Microsoft Community Contributor award

Last year I spent an awful lot of time helping other developers and IT Pros out on vbforums.com, spiceworks.com, Technet forums, MSDN forums, and posting a few things on this blog… but this year haven’t really had that much time to do this – so it was a bit of a surprise to find out I’ve been awarded a Microsoft Community Contributor award for 2011! I’m pleased all the same of course and it is nice to be recognised for helping others. Hopefully my contributions will continue to be useful to other people in the developer/IT Pro community.

NTFS Permissions Reporter New Screenshots

Just a quick post on the NTFS permissions reporting tool that I am currently working on, to show some updated screenshots.

AD Info Free Edition 1.5 Released

As mentioned in a previous blog post, version 1.5 of the standard edition of AD Info was released a few days ago – well now version 1.5 of the free edition is also available for download.

AD Info (Active Directory Reporting Tool) Version 1.5 Released

Version 1.5 of my Active Directory reporting tool is now available. Read on for a list of the improvements that can be found in this new version

Permissions Not Included In .NET AccessRule.FileSystemRights Enum

Using .NET you may think that determining which permissions are assigned to a directory/file should be quite easy, as there is a FileSystemRights Enum defined that seems to contain every possible permission that a file/directory can have and calling AccessRule.FileSystemRights returns a combination of these values. However, you will soon come across some permissions where the value in this property does not match any of the values in the FileSystemRights Enum (I do wish they wouldn’t name some properties with the same name as a Type but hey).

Cjwdev NTFS Permissions Reporter – Early Details

I get quite a few emails asking when I’m going to be releasing the NTFS permissions reporting tool that I have had listed under the “Future Projects” section of my software page for some time… well, I finally started spending some time on this over the last few days and thought I would post a few screenshots and some basic details of what the application will be able to do.

Install Fonts For Logged On User via SCCM Package

When deploying a package that installs fonts (a simple MSI installation in our case) via SCCM, the user that is logged on to the computer when the MSI is installed will not be able to use these new fonts until they log out and log back on. Read on for my explanation and solution…

.NET Windows API Library (Cjwdev.WindowsApi) Vesion 2.2 Released

There are not that many changes in this release as I was only updating it for my own use really but I figured other people may benefit from the new API definitions and managed methods included.

VB.NET – Start process in console session from windows service on Windows 7

Launching a process that the currently logged on user can see on their desktop session (and interact with) from a Windows service is a popular topic – and there are a wide variety of answers out there when someone asks how to do this, some people say it is not even possible on Windows Vista or Windows 7. Turns out it is actually very easy…

AD Info 1.1 Released

The new version of my Active Directory querying tool, AD Info, adds the ability to query several Exchange Server related attributes (user’s SMTP addresses etc) as well as several other requested attributes and features