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How to Analyse Active Directory Nested Group NTFS Share Permission

How to Analyse Active Directory Nested Group NTFS Share Permission

Written By Anoop C Nair
Last Updated August 5, 2024
Posted In Solarwinds
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How to Analyse Active Directory Nested Group NTFS Share Permission. Do you have problems with NTFS permissions and are tired of going through Windows Explorer, checking the permissions, and correcting them?

A tool can help you with this. You can also audit Active Directory Nested Group’s NTFS and Share Permission Issues.

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How to Analyse Active Directory Nested Group NTFS Share Permission

SolarWinds has a Free Tool, “Permissions Analyzer for Active Directory,” which allows us to determine effective NTFS permissions and shares. SolarWinds Free Permission Analyzer tool can assess the NTFS and Share permissions assigned via Active Directory nested groups.

How to Analyse Active Directory Nested Group NTFS Share Permission - Fig.1
How to Analyse Active Directory Nested Group NTFS Share Permission – Fig.1

The installation of this tool takes only 2 minutes. Download the Free Permissions Analyzer Tool. The advantage is that we can run this tool remotely to check the NTFS permissions. You don’t need to log in to each server to check the share and security (NTFS) permissions.

Just provide the UNC path of the share, and the tool will give you output that is very easily understandable. This graphical representation helps to understand the issues and resolve them.

How to Analyse Active Directory Nested Group NTFS Share Permission - Fig.2
How to Analyse Active Directory Nested Group NTFS Share Permission – Fig.2

The output will be in the following form:- Permission Name, Inherited permission or not, NTFS, Share, and Total. When a user reports a problem accessing a network share, we want to check whether the user has the appropriate NTFS and share permissions.

Windows Explorer is the way to assess the situation. However, if you’re supporting an organization with many users, the servers are located in different Data Centers. Connecting to each server and checking the NTFS permissions from Windows Explorer is straightforward. To view the effective NTFS permissions for a particular user or group, click “Advanced” in the Security properties and then click “Effective Permissions.”

You can access more details about the tool once you install “SolarWindsPermissionsAnalyzerTool.MSI” on your workstation. Look for the Permissions Analyzer.htm file. This file contains all the requirements, recommendations, steps, etc.

Also, IT pros are always confused about the difference between NTFS and Share permissions in a shared folder. NTFS is the permission that provides access ( read, write, amend, etc.) to users or Active Directory groups.

However, the share is just shared permission. The user can see that share but won’t be able to access the content if they do not have proper NTFS permissions.

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Anoop C Nair is Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for consecutive 10 years! He is a Workplace Solution Architect with more than 22+ years of experience in Workplace technologies. He is a Blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group Community leader. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM and Intune. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security, Career etc…

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Anoop C Nair is Workplace Technology solution architect with 25+ years of experience in global enterprise organizations such as JP Morgan, Capgemini, etc. Microsoft Certified Trainer. Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for consecutive 11+ years! He also conducts Intune and modern workplace tech training for enterprise organizations. He is Blogger, Speaker, and Founder of HTMD Community and HTMD Conference. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like Intune, Windows, Cloud PC. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security.

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