Has the option to include SIDs if desired for user accounts that no longer exist but still have permissions allocated (disabled by default).So if you have Domain Admins or some special account that has access everywhere anyway, you can easily exclude it Has the option to easily specify a list of accounts to automatically ignore in the report.If the permissions don’t match, this means someone has unexpected rights so include it in the report Compares the permissions on each item to that of its parent.Builds a list of all files and folders including all subfolders and files along with the permissions assigned to each.Accepts a parent folder (can be a local folder or a UNC path on a remote machine).The tool to do that I call the ntfsreporter and it works as follows:

Again, you don’t care how you get the report, you just care that it’s readable. There is nothing to be afraid of here as I’ve designed this tool to be useful even if you have absolutely no PowerShell experience. I found myself recently in this exact situation and decided to use this as my first real attempt at building a full-fledged tool with PowerShell.

You’re not allowed to spend any money so you’re stumped.

You’ve found tools like the NTFS Permissions Reporter ( ) but quickly found this costs hundreds of dollars in order to produce any kind of intelligible report. You realize that trying to analyze this manually is simply impossible so you’re looking for some kind of tool to assist you. You’ve now been tasked with cleaning this up. Oh and since there has been no proper governance of it over the years, inheritance is broken all over the place and permissions are assigned many levels deep with no rhyme or reason. Unfortunately for you, this folder contains literally tens of thousands of folders and hundreds of thousands of files. If you found this post via a search engine, you’ve likely received a ticket/request from some manager requesting an audit report of the permissions on an important share within your company.

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