NTFS Permissions Reporter Free Edition 1.0.0

NTFS Permissions Reporter is a tool to help you figure out how NTFS file and folder permissions are assigned on your drive.

There's none of the usual hassle with the standard Windows security dialogs, for instance. Instead you can simply right-click a folder and choose Report Permissions to retrieve information on the selected folder, and all its subfolders.

And after a relatively quick scan time you'll have a tree which can browse, and clicking on any individual folder will accurately reveal the permissions for each of your user groups, as well as details on any folders which haven't inherited their parent's permissions, and a table of folders indicating any errors which the program encountered along the way (like trying to access folders when it doesn't have the appropriate permissions, ironically).

Don't like the default presentation? It's also possible to display the results in a grid (including the relevant SID), and your report can be exported as an HTML file for easy analysis later.

Useful though this is, the commercial Standard Edition is significantly better as it supports filters. Rather than simply report every permission on and below the target folder, you can look only for directories which aren't inheriting permissions, say; user accounts which don't exist; accounts which have been explicitly assigned (or denied) permissions; accounts from certain domains, and more.

If that's not enough then you can create your own filters from scratch based on many different criteria, making the package very useful for system administrators. Prices start at $149 and you can find out more at the developer's site.

NTFS Permissions Reporter Free Edition doesn't have anything like the power of the commercial edition, but if you just want a quick, easy and accurate way to review all your folder permissions at once then it'll still be very useful.