Over the last few weeks we have released updates for one of our most popular tools, NTFS Permissions Reporter. Here are the details of the changes in the new versions:
To download the latest version of the program, please go to Help –> Check For Updates, from within the program itself.
NTFS Permissions Reporter – Changes between version 1.5 and 2.0
- Main window menu redesign
- New command line usage – use the GUI to generate XML file containing all command line settings rather than using individual command line arguments for every option
- Alternate credentials can now be specified and will be used for accessing folders, SID lookups, and for getting group members from AD
- Added an option to exclude special folders that represent junctions and reparse points (e.g “C:\Documents and Settings” on Vista and above)
- When performing report comparisons, instead of only being able to select one root folder if a report had been run against several shares, there is now an option to compare all root folders at once
- Members of local groups are now retrieved when you use the option to get group members
- The description of each account/group is now shown in the results
- Added an option to specify whether or not filters based on account/group should be classed as a match when the Everyone group or Authenticated Users group is found in permissions
- In HTML exports, permissions are now highlighted in different colours in the same way they are in Excel exports
- Export to Excel XLS (97-2003) format
- Export to HTML in tree format
- Fixed a bug that caused incorrect values to be displayed for the “Apply To” field on permissions entries in some scenarios
- Filters can be saved to file and loaded back in to the program at a later date separately from report settings
- Filter conditions can be edited instead of having to remove them and add again
- Added an option to wrap text on to multiple lines for long values in Excel exports
- Excluded Accounts window has an option to exclude disabled accounts, so all disabled accounts will be excluded even if they would only be shown due to group membership
- Report comparisons can be performed via command line and automatically exported and emailed
- Fixed a bug that caused account details and group members not to be retrieved if a Foreign Security Principal had the same SID as an account or group had in its SID History attribute
- Invalid XML characters will now be ignored when exporting to Excel XLSX file
- Fixed a bug that caused Special permissions to not be shown in the Simple Permissions view when Modify permissions were also being shown in the same permission entry
NTFS Permissions Reporter – Changes between version 2.0 and 2.1.1 (latest version)
- Improved SID to username translation when using remote computers for SID lookups
- Added filter functionality for finding directories where a specified account does not exist in permissions list (optionally checking group members as well)
- Multiple excluded directories can now be added at once by importing from txt/csv file
- Added support for using /export argument to specify export file path when /CmdConfig argument is used to specify all other export settings for command line task
- Removed background blur of main window when opening dialog windows
- Fixed a bug with the “permissions identical to parent folder” filter that caused it to incorrectly class some folders as having identical permissions
- Fixed a bug that caused local group membership enumeration to fail if the group contained members from externally trusted domains
- Fixed a bug that caused error messages about accounts from the BUILTIN and NT AUTHORITY domains to be shown in some scenarios
Chris
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